Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phoebe Foster, brunette and beauteous, having creditably acquitted herself in Topaze, The Jazz Singer, Interference, deserves a far better part than playing a Park Avenue Lady Windemere in such an inane piece as That's The Woman. So does the rest of an excellent cast...
...lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial, but salient in the plot, is the only thing in the picture that is silly. The simple expedient of altering the tag of the opera-singer to "Swedish Contralto" would have removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that the bell-like head-tones heard issuing from a ballroom could not possibly be produced by Garbo's deep voice. It is a voice fascinating for its monotony which, though natural to Garbo...
Holder of no title but conceded by some critics to be the best boxer in the modern prizering, Chocolate's idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored...
...Yale in China, Presbyterian church, Singer Sewing Machine Co., Standard Oil Co. of New York, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., Seventh Day Adventists...
...aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie FranÇaise. His wife (stage name: "Mme Lubin") is a onetime opera singer...