Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michael Maus, the French Michel Souris, the Spaniards Miguel Ratonocito and Miguel Pericote, the Japanese Miki Kuchi. Although his Christian name might be understood as an affront to Irish dignity, he has been respectfully reviewed in the Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band...
Died. Mrs. Cora Buzzelle Millay. 67, mother of Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence, The Buck in the Snow, The King's Henchman), Novelist Kathleen Millay (Wayfarer), Singer Norma Millay (in Manhattan's Intimate Opera); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Camden, Maine...
Kenton's most amusing son is, of course, Mr. Holtz (Manhattan Mary), who has apparently matriculated solely to make a living for himself and family. Neither a singer nor dancer, Funnyman Holtz?part producer of the show?depends on an infinite dialectal versatility for his comedy, with particular stress laid on the speech and mannerisms of his race. Questioned as to whom he knows in England, breezily says he : "Why, Lady Goldstein, Lord Cornbloom, Archbishop Shapiro . . ." and finding that his restaurant, pressing and trucking businesses are doing well, he inquires: "What's the matter, has Hoover resigned?" Assisting...
...Singer Clara Clemens, wife of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and only one of Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens' four daughters to survive him, now a lecturer and writer (My Father*) on her father's life, revealed that when she faces a public from the platform, she imagines herself to be an alligator because the alligator basking in the sun is her idea of imperviousness to environment personified. "And not only alligators! If you want to be soft, think of yourself as a rose. If you want to be hard, unchanging, think of a sphinx...
Died. Dr. Luis Philander Berne, 48, Manhattan plastic surgeon; of heart disease, while operating on the nose of Mrs. Muriel Sisnan Dodge, second wife of Motorboatman Horace E. Dodge; in Manhattan. Other famed patients of Dr. Berne have-been Actress Fannie Brice, Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, Actor Bert Lytell, Singer Georgie Price and (rumored) Queen Marie of Rumania. The operation on the nose of Mrs. Dodge was successfully completed by a Dr. Joseph Safian, face-lifter to Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...