Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canvas to stay. Most notable fact about Champion Armstrong, who was able to finish high school by setting up pins in a St. Louis bowling alley and developed his sturdy legs by training for one of C. C. Pyle's "bunion derbies," is that he belongs to Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Singer Jolson whose great heart is a Broadway legend, bought his contract last year for $6,000 from a gun-toting promoter named Wirt ("One Shot") Ross, turned him over to be managed by his friend Eddie Meade...
...daily at 7 a. m., dislikes to practice. Of her voice, Soprano Sack says: "Every manager, everywhere I go, wants me to give the public my high notes. Very well, I give them. But I give them as a kind of extra present. Please understand, I am a normal singer. ... I refuse to transpose anything to display my high notes. I insist on singing in the original...
...says asked her for voice instruction): "No. You and I are friends now. But if I started to teach you we wouldn't be friends. Let's leave it at that." (Ganna Walska, who made the same request): "Learn to cook. You'll never be a singer...
Honored. Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, singer; with a Ph.D.; for "eminence" in the field of entertainment; by Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. In addition to the degree he was given the key to the city and made mayor...
Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb...