Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They confiscated the estate of Baron George Daubek, central European representative of International Business Machines and husband of New York Metropolitan Opera Singer Jarmila Novotna; they announced that Daubek no longer had "an open protector" in the Czech cabinet. They did not say who the protector had been. The late Jan Masaryk had played piano accompaniments for Novotna on U.S. recordings of Czech folk songs...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
...last minute program addition, singer Kitty Kallen will appear at the blow-out, although she will not sing, the eight-man Smoker Committee announced last night. At the same time Mile. Charpentier, termed "France's top songbird," notified the committeemen that sudden Philadelphia engagements will keep her from the show...
...said in 1943 of Copilot John Curtis Burn when he kept her from drowning in the Tagus River after the Lisbon Clipper crash that broke his back and left her crippled (TIME, March 8, 1943). Last week, 25 leg operations and a divorce (from ex-Radio Singer Don Ross) later, she announced that she would marry rugged, 33-year-old Flyer Burn. She would have to be on crutches for the ceremony, but Jane hoped that after another operation this summer she could throw them away...
Died. Saul Singer, 66, onetime chairman, Executive Committee of the Bank of United States, who progressed from rags to riches-and then to Sing Sing for his part in history's biggest* bank crash; of a ruptured artery; in Miami Beach. Out of jail in 1935, he headed for Texas with $75.74, started all over again, became a major independent oilman...