Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artists had been speaking to the board for 40 years. In the late 1890s, when John Carrere and Thomas Hastings designed the big building at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone...
...other branch of the present-day theatre. But a well-trained operatic cast can put an opera through its tricks with very little rehearsal, often manages to do so with none at all. Schooled in a standard series of movements and gestures for each role, a good average opera singer can be fitted into a production at a moment's notice, like a spare part in a machine. With a good assortment of such spare parts an operatic director can assemble operas almost as rapidly as mechanics assemble automobiles. And the spare parts being more or less standard...
...later Midget Joe Scott, 22, 3 ft. 4 in., 40 lb., applied for a license to wed Torch-Singer Mae Britt...
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...
LILIES FOR MADAME-Hugh Austin- Crime Club ($2). A snarl of theft and blackmail involves an obscure girl hired to impersonate a New York nightclub singer on a Caribbean cruise. A vigorous tale, with suspense, humor, excellent dialogue...