Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to art school, followed the well-worn course into musical comedy bits. One day W. Tourjansky, free-lance director, saw her in a street cafe, addressed a soft remark to her. She slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces for Adolphe Osso and La Petite Chocolatière for Marc Allegret, both comedy roles, got her first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part...
...daughter of a rich Manhattan importer named David Stewart, Isabella Stewart married into a proud Boston family. She delighted, scandalized and tyrannized Back Bay from the early 1860's until her death in 1924. Small, exuberant, handsome, Mrs. Gardner was first painted by John Singer Sargent at 30 in a black shawl. The portrait caused so much talk that she had it put away. That was about the only time she ever bowed to public opinion. She traveled abroad more than anyone else in Boston, bought more dazzling gowns, had more servants and footmen, consorted with actors, artists, musicians...
...most persistently cheery friend the American Expeditionary Force ever had was Elsie Janis (Bierbower), oldtime singer and impersonator. With her indomitable mother, Mrs. Janis E. Bierbower, never far away, Miss Janis gave 610 performances in France in 15 months. After the War she appeared in vaudeville, announced her retirement in 1930 after the death of Mrs. Bierbower. Elsie Janis has since written for the cinema, performed on the radio, helped produce a revue (New Faces), married a salesman 16 years her junior. Last week Miss Janis, now 47, an nounced her intention to carry out literally Christ's command...
Appointed. Gertrud Wettergren, able Swedish mezzo-soprano of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.): to be court singer, by Sweden's King Gustav...
...Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father Tim (Spencer Tracy) struggles to make a convert out of Blackie while Mr. Burley (Jack Holt) struggles to make an opera singer out of the chanteuse, so that she will be worthy of his manor on Nob Hill. The Burley plan is succeeding much better than Father Tim's when the bricks begin to rain...