Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response to an invitation, Antonio Salemme, Manhattan sculptor, shipped to the Philadelphia Art Alliance last month for exhibition a large, black bronze figure of Paul Robeson, famed Negro actor and singer, posed nude.? Never shown, the statue was promptly shipped back to Sculptor Salemme with this explanation: "The executive committee [of the Art Alliance] expressed their apprehension of the consequences of exhibiting such a nude figure in a public square, especially the figure of a Negro, as the colored problem seems to be unusually great in Philadelphia...
...Eagle's brood increased. Suckled in the stage wings, they have all become capable actors. Son Charles ran away from home and joined an English circus, a Russian ballet. He has played roles in Russian, Polish, French, German, English, Yiddish. Son Adolph managed George Jessel's Jazz Singer. Son Irving has appeared in minor Broadway parts, Son Jack in The Front Page. The youngest son, Luther, played this season in Street Scene and Red Rust. The only married daughter, Frances, was graduated from the American Academy of Arts, has toured with Resurrection and Eyes of Youth. Daughter Julia...
...whose first appearance in the house was as a customer-and the situation has been clarified to the satisfaction of all. Acting honors were shared by Ferdinand Gottschalk, 61-longtime mummer, playwright (Nanette, The Love Letter)-as Preacher Wampus, and Actress Loftus, 53, onetime variety actress, music hall singer, who once trouped with Sir Henry Irving, Madame Modjeska, Edward H. Sothern, William Faversham. Part of Lost Sheep's revenue or deficit will go into or come out of the pocket of Musicomedian Jack Donahue, a backer of the entertainment...
...booklet (an advertisement of Winchester Repeating Arms Co.) told of a "noted opera singer" who wagered he could earn $10 per hour by street singing. Disguised as a humble Italian, he began in the courtyard of a luxurious Manhattan apartment house. In one half-hour...
Frieda Hempel, Inc., cosmetic concern, of which the famed opera singer is a director, was sued for $2,958 back pay by Thomas La Prelle, the company's sales-manager...