Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Lieut. Rudy Vallee, 42, Coast Guard bandmaster; and Bettejane Greer, 18, model, his film-singer protegee; in Hollywood. Cinemactress Fay Webb, the crooner's second wife, divorced him in 1936, died the same year...
Holy Matrimony (20th Century-Fox) unites that bland bully Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) and British Singer Grade Fields, results in a bouncing comedy. The fun revolves around a corpse. When his valet (Eric Blore) dies, great British Painter Priam Farll (Monty Woolley) has the body buried in Westminster Abbey...
...steady job on the organ in Harlem's Lincoln Theater. He made Q.R.S. piano rolls, records with blues-singer Bessie Smith and Sarah Martin. The late Arnold Rothstein backed Waller's first show, Keep Shufflin'. On records Waller began to sing as well as play, and in his expressive mouth the inane words of a popular song often came in for very searching satirical treatment. In 1929, in collaboration with Guitarist Eddie Condon and a small but vital ensemble, he made one of the greatest jazz records of all time: The Minor Drag and Harlem Fuss...
...last week was introduced a benefit art show of some of the glamor girls of the turn of the century. Given by Manhattan's Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, the show featured the work of the most blandishing portrayers of women in recent history: the late John Singer Sargent and his less famous French friend, the late Paul Helleu (pronounced Ell-uh). Both had undoubtedly, as the catalogue stated, felt the sorcery of young girls and of the ladies in whom the fascination of youth had been replaced by the art of studied sophistication. Both had been surrounded...
...wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues singer, Mildred Bailey...