Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night after Henry Wallace announced himself a candidate for the presidency of the U.S., he turned up with Russophile Singer Paul Robeson on the stage of the darkened Milwaukee Auditorium. Standing under a dramatic spotlight, facing an audience of 3,600 who had paid from 50? to $2 apiece to hear him,* Candidate Wallace began laying down his campaign platform. From offstage, a microphone boomed: "This is the voice of the people for Wallace. Now is the time to stand up and be counted...
...stocky, scholarly looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...
...years were left to Musorgsky. Sinking toward dissolution, he still continued to .create music-the unfinished opera Khovanshchina, many songs, e.g., The Song of the Flea, Songs and Dances of Death. Then, after a last desperate effort to make money by touring Russia as accompanist for a singer, he collapsed. Finally put in a hospital early in 1881, he lived only long enough for Artist Ilya Repin to finish his famous drunkard's-nose portrait...
...Manhattan café that calls itself the Royal Chicken Roost offered Singer Margaret Truman a six-week engagement, with options, at $10,000 a week. The management's extra persuasion: "We would even change our name...
...agreeable group calling itself the Society for the Betterment of the Human Race picked three men and three women who have, it announced, the "natural endowments" to be the ideal "eugenic parents." The perfect ancestors turned out to be Cinemactors Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, Radio Singer Jack Smith, and Jane Russell, Betty Grable, Linda Darnell...