Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...
...Notably Eslanda Goode Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson, lawyer, actor, spirituals-singer. She is a Spanish Negress who, after being graduated from Columbia, was an assistant pathological chemist at Presbyterian. She surrendered her profession to marry Paul Robeson...
...HONEY, T'AINT SO.-- DEEP RIVER RLUES: The former number the composition of the singer--who incidentally plays his own accompaniment. Willard Robison is one of the finest and most intelligent negro blues singers that we have heard...
...persuades him to return to Broadway. Marcus has been looking for him. He joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...
...piece is nice entertainment, yet all encomia of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool must be leavened by one fact, in justice to cinemactors, legitimactors: to play a part is one thing, to play a part which has been written around an actor's career is something else again...