Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturalized. 'Michael Sinnot (Mack Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...
...Pinch hitter" (emergency batsman) was corned by Manager McGraw to describe Samuel Strang Nicklin, oldtime Giant (later a concert singer) who, aged 56, died last week in Chattanooga...
Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven...
...thing that strikes me awfully funny about college boys is that they always want to be known as men", said Sidney Mann, light opera and specialty singer at the Mayfair in a recent interview. "I see them here at the Mayfair acting as though they were practically grandparents already, and yet they are not really any more than just overgrown kids. I believe in keeping young as long as possible, and it positively pains me to see a lot of people still young trying to be something which they will regret being a little later...
...ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...