Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another musical show is in town but that should not cause any great rush to the box office as "The Street Singer" is the typical type of entertainment offered to the not so discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy...
...chorus takes the booby prize for pulchritude and doesn't even dance well enough to justify their existence. There is the almost inescapable collection of humanity known as chorus men about which the less said the better. All in all the Street Singer can be given the miss in balk without any qualms...
Tonight or Never is about an opera diva (Helen Gahagan) who, although a lady of affairs, is unable to become a great singer until she falls in love-specifically, when Mr. Melvyn Douglas, in very gentlemanly fashion, bites her on the neck. It is the second production this season by David Belasco, who is ailing, and he has supplied characteristic touches: real rain, real flowers, a not particularly real play. Two years ago Miss Gahagan went abroad to study music. In Tonight or Never she sings snatches of Tosca very satisfactorily...
Odds were 3 to i for sallow, hard-hitting Lightweight Champion Al Singer as he met Challenger Tony Canzoneri, once featherweight champion, in Manhattan last week. It was to be 15 rounds and the reporter broadcasting at the ringside made the obvious comment that both men were getting set for a long fight. Suddenly something happened. Singer reached for Canzoneri with a left jab-reached a little too far. Canzoneri shot his own left over, jarring -the champion's jaw. The punch was not particularly hard, but it flustered Singer. He stepped back to get his bearings, then launched...
...other: John Singer Sargent...