Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locally famous virtuosos, in small U.S. cities, who hope to take home a batch of favorable press clippings. Some are second-rank European artists who hope to enter the U.S. concert world by Manhattan's tricky revolving door. Some, like Clarinetist Benny Goodman, Cinemactress Jeanette MacDonald, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, are successful popular artists who cannot resist a yen to compete in the long-hair trade. Some are well-known concert artists who expect to recoup in nationwide tours the money they lose in Manhattan. Some just want the thrill of performing in the nation's biggest musical...
LAWRENCE H. SINGER...
...troops in the Fijis were getting along very well. The British, led by a popular new Governor, had been extremely hospitable. The climate (average 77°) is delightful. The Fiji native, one of the world's finest indolent characters, is happy, hospitable, courteous. He is an excellent singer and he sings almost all the time. He is also a superb sailor and navigator. The 19th-Century Chief Thakombau was the title character of Adolf Brewster's King of the Cannibal Isles, and there have been cases of Fijis eating each other and missionaries, but the habit has died...
Featured at the dance, which will be held at the Hotel Plaza in New York, will be Ella Fitzgerald. Backing this well-known singer will be the Four Keys, a vocal and musical harmony group, offering Art Furness on the bass, Bill Furness on the piano, Slim Furness on the electric guitar and Ernie Hat-field doing the honors in vocal work...
After Vanderbilt, the best job Dinah could get in Manhattan was as an unpaid singer on a local radio station. Months later, on a bleak New Year's Eve when she had got down to her last nickel, she almost committed suicide...