Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan lent three Holbeins. The Metropolitan Museum sent down El Greco's View of Toledo and John Singer Sargent's portrait of Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...
Married. Comedian Mischa Auer, 36; and Singer Joyce Duskin Hunter, 25; each for the second time; day after his wife Norma Tillman's divorce became final; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...
Thomas J. Ashton, of New York and Matthews, will assist McNulty as treasurer. New Advertising Manager Frederic W. Rugg will head a staff composed of Paul Nurick, New York and Stoughton; and Martin Singer, of New York and Lionel. Aiding Circulation Marvin Sleisinger, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Walker House, will be Don W. Crary, of Dallas City, Illinois and Thayer; Nathan S. Davis Jr., of Winnetka, Illinois and Hollis; David Grinnell, of Needham and Holworthy; and Gaius Merwin, of Scarsdale, New York and Mower...
Larry Adler met Paul Draper in 1933, when mouth-organ dates were scarce. The late Samuel A. ("Roxy") Rothafel had a stage set with three doors, had hired Draper and a girl singer to enter two of them. Adler wangled the job of coming in through the third, competing with Draper for the girl. Adler and Draper became friends, finally got together to try for concert-hall audiences in Chicago last year...
...outfit called Camp Shows Inc. will foster plays; the Citizens Committee, vaudeville and musicals. Results: U.S.O. will give Camp Shows Inc. energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...