Word: singers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Braddock contributes a thoughtful article on "Boston-1915" in which he points out opportunities for Harvard graduates to find a useful occupation. In "The Song of the Little Singer" Mr. E. S. Lewis expresses himself with great ease and modesty; his last two lines are particularly pleasing. Mr. R. A. Morton writes of the Boylston street bridge, using fact, imagination, and a photograph. The style is somewhat journalese. Mr. Fang Shik Chien writes on "The American Football in the Eye of an Oriental." When the football first came into his eye, Mr. Chien says, he disliked...
Last spiring Dr. Chapman, then leader of evangelistic campaigns in many cities in the United States and Canada, joined forces with Mr. Alexander, the gospel singer, in order to conduct revival meetings throughout the world. The first work carried on by the united evangelists and gospel singers was a five weeks' campaign in Philadelphia, and since then the combined work has been known as the Chapman-Alexander Simultaneous Mission. During the past few weeks in Boston, Simultaneous meetings have been held in 25 different centres...
...Whiting understood his audience and made only the brief remarks needed to give an appreciation of what was to be sung. Mrs. Goold's singing was admirable. It was for the singer a trying program, chosen to represent many types of song, and including in its range four centuries and as many nationalities; yet such was Mrs. Goold's versatility of art that one could hardly say where she was at her best. She brought out the special traits of each song, yet never exaggerated; she sang with spirit and taste, and always with charm...
...gave some good imitations, especially of the playing of the banjo and the mandolin. A melody of popular airs with ridiculous verses, sung by Fitzgerald and Gilday, was well received. The Labakans performed many ludicrous gymnastic feats, but their little black and tan "Folly" quite outdid them. Rogers, the singer, was much appreciated and Hawthorne and Burt gave a laughable little sketch, in which Burt told of his economies and their disastrous results. Devoy and Miller volunteered to show how to tumble under difficulties...
...program includes the following acts: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; the Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly"; Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet"; Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed"; the biograph, including pictures of the Harvard-Cambridge boat-race last summer...