Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putnam Aldrich will be the guest of the Lowell House Musical Society the evening of Easter Sunday, and will present a concert of harpsichord music. The program will include works from all the great composers for the harpsichord. In addition the House Choral Society will sing several numbers. The concert will be in the Common Room and is scheduled to begin...
Miss Cela Lee of the Stork Club in New York will sing during supper, after which there will be one of the first public showings of old-fashioned movies, which will include the first Walt Disney and some of the thrillers of former days with William S. Hart and Theda Bara...
Lead Belly was in Manhattan last week about to appear in a Harlem vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
...went on to make a serious career of teaching, now supervises public school music in Adams, Mass. When she was able to get a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, Inez Gorman went there as a matter of course. When she went to St. Louis to sing minor roles with the Municipal Opera, she met James Stagliano, first horn player in the St. Louis Symphony. Year ago she became his wife...
...aviator's outfit Baritone Crawford was frankly out to cater to his audience. He distributed a list of 100 songs, offered to sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...