Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Campbell had been spectacular, often in the headlines. He had raided clubs, night clubs, big hotels. His greatest fame came when he caused $50,000 worth of furniture in Singer Helen Morgan's nightclub to be chopped up (TIME, July 9, 1928). The evening before he went out of office his men descended upon the Hotel Ritz-Carlton while he, in a dinner coat, personally led a raid on the expensive municipally-owned Central Park Casino...
...Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy-singer, went to Aqueduct (L. I.) racetrack, bet on three horses, came away with...
Eight new singers have been engaged: Soprano Beatrice Belkin of Lawrence, Kan., member of "Roxy's Gang" (Manhattan cinema troupe), the St. Louis Municipal and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Grand Opera Companies; Soprano Myrna Sharlow of Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung...
...heard Paul Bustill Robeson, in the flesh or on a phonograph record, sing "Ol' Man River," "Water Boy" and many another movingly mournful song of his race. Those who have seen him know he is young (32), tall, powerful, coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda for the "new," educated Negro, partly a paean of press clippings...
...Burning Heart (Terra). This sound-picture, made in Germany, contains such noises as singing and automobile horns but no talking. It deals with a young composer who falls in love with a girl who tells him she works in a post-office but is really a cabaret singer. Ludwig Berger, who directed The Vagabond King, made this one on one of his trips abroad. Mady Christians, a handsome young woman, good at love-scenes, has the female lead...