Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggressive one of the lot. She learned to play the violin, at twelve played in a concert. Then she studied piano, practiced patiently five hours a day. An amateur performance of Trial by Jury in Chicago perhaps hinted first at her dramatic talents. But she wanted to be a singer. To Paris she went, lived with a French family, studied diligently. Her debut at the Opera Comique came at a time when she was practically penniless. She had been engaged to do a small part the following season, meanwhile was permitted to attend rehearsals. One night the soprano singing...
Beethoven's Adelaide by Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong...
...John Singer Sargent...
...relation but who acts consistently as a big brother to her, is an enormous fellow with a dumbly faithful expression. In the same show is a paunchy middle-aged Romeo who sings romantic love-songs so convincingly that even his mouth becomes heart-shaped as he warbles. The singer is carried away by the artiste's charms, acrobatically displayed, and pays her respectfully romantic court. She is enchanted and they are married. Her partner is a little surprised but apparently not hurt, and they all leave the show because Romeo is going to be the world's greatest...
...with the sight of his face and leaves the house in a rage. He returns a little later, a little cooler, only to find his wife practicing well-remembered tricks with her old partner. At that there is an explosion. When the smoke clears away you see the great singer raucously peddling fruit, the dumb acrobat swinging iron girders, and the mother putting on a circus act with her acrobatic twins...