Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, learned his lesson. Thereafter police found him friendly, co-operative-in return grew less inquisitive about his methods. He got back $200,000 worth of stolen property for Wanamaker's department store, a $40,000 pearl for Mrs. Joshua S. Cosden, jewels worth $81,000 for Singer Grace Moore, made another retrieve from the famous Sitamore loot. Soon he had 20 operatives working for him, was earning $25,000 per year. Local police were grateful for the effort and embarrassment he saved them. And then, last year, Congress passed the National Stolen Property Act making interstate transportation...
Enthusiasts like Robert Edmond Jones expect that Becky Sharp will revolutionize the industry as thoroughly as the first talkie, The Jazz Singer (which grossed $3,500,000), did in 1927. Less sanguine observers have suggested cause for doubt. The human ear, which accepted sound in cinema so readily, has been scientifically found to be much less sensitive and hence much less critical than the eye. A wax effigy, much more lifelike than a statue, can still be less impressive, since its effort to achieve reality calls attention to its failure. Hollywood producers, though most of them expect color to arrive...
...dealings Tenor Johnson was expected to be a fair and sympathetic arbitrator, a practical judge of the artists' rights and of what the public wants for its money. As a singer Tenor Johnson was always popular with his colleagues. Yet unlike many of them he had kept closely in touch with the everyday people who make up audiences. Johnson is a golfer, a Mason, a Rotarian. He has remained as unpretentious as his townsfolk in Guelph, Ontario, who now prize his portrait in Guelph Town Hall but who once wondered at a youth so incalculable that he would turn...
Early in the Depression, dapper, white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., and his wife, who was Opera Singer Anna Case, closed their 50-servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
...HOUSE ON THE ROOF-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday, Doran ($2). The usual rainstorm, with better-than-usual characterizations, including an aging singer, a nice young girl, a nice young man, by an increasingly popular young author...