Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing, Baby, Sing" endeavors to show what happens when a night-club singer is not a gold-digger. Alice Faye is that phenomenon, and her conduct is so amazing that even a movie news-reporter (Michael Whalen) is induced to take off his hat, and eventually to marry her. She really should have married Adolphe. Menjou, but then he was always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those...
...their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able to walk again. . . . Doctors always tell...
Wearing his familiar navy-blue beret, offstage Fisticuffer Johnson told newshawks he thought old friends like Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri and Lucrezia Bori were as pleasing to the eye as the artistes of the current season. Of Tetrazzini, whom he considered the greatest woman singer, Mr. Johnson remarked, "They'll never replace her. She was fat and clumpy, but she needed not beauty...
Habitually gloomy on the subject of world trade is Singer Manufacturing Co.'s venerable President Sir Douglas Alexander. At annual stockholders' meetings held in Manhattan by Singer in September, because it takes accountants eight months to make a report on Singer's outlandish business, Sir Douglas has seldom beamed since Singer lost $106,000,000 in the War ($84,300,000 in Russia). Black depression crept into Sir Douglas's cultivated voice in September 1933, when he had to report that Singer profits in the preceding year hit a low of $2,412,698. Last week...
...From Singer representatives in Spain, he said, no word had been received about possible damage to Singer sales units or the Singer Building in Madrid. The company has called off all Spanish shipments. Sir Douglas did not say how much business Singer did in Spain last year...