Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...
When the conductor took her familiar, choppy steps across the stage and mounted the podium, she faced 200-odd singers as ruddy-faced, golden-haired and Nordic as herself. At her feet, lost in the dusk and their black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with...
...luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce, "with such richness of voice, such simplicity of phrasing and such communicative charm that they enchanted an audience almost 100 per cent...
...Manhattan's Radio City, LIFE'S cameramen recorded National Broadcasting Co.'s tenth birthday with candid studio shots of such favorites as Gossip Walter Winchell, Exhibitionist Gypsy Rose Lee (with clothes on), Singer Jessica Dragonette, Funnyman Jack Benny and Maestro Rudy Vallee. In The President's Album, a feature which will be continued weekly, LIFE showed shots which Franklin Roosevelt might well paste up in his scrapbook...
William Siegel '39; Eliot N. Sliverman '38; Theodore Singer '38; Daniel T. Skinner '38; Robert H. Sproat, 3rd. '38; Maurice Steinberg '39; Felix F. Stumpf '38; Arthur Szathmary '37; Harold R. Taylor '39; Alfred W. Teichmeier, Jr. '38; Arthur E. Tiemann '39; Daniel Tower '37; Henry H. Urrows '38; Albert H. Walker '37; Thayer S. Warshaw '37; Ira A. Watson '37; Walter W. Webster, Jr. '39; Albert E. Weiner...