Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawks (Columbia). As a realistic picture of modern commercial aviation, Air Hawks would be hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph...
...mellow. He bestowed an impulsive, bearded kiss on Conductor Arturo Toscanini, his oldtime colleague and again his friend. Then Rosa Ponselle got up one last party, at sailing time. When Gatti hulked up on deck he found that she had invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini." As the Rex pulled out of dock, Gatti slowly waved his handkerchief so long as he could be seen...
...vacation spot. Lasting 15 minutes, the program went out over 15 stations of National Broadcasting Co.'s "Blue" network, covering the States East of the Mississippi, North of North Carolina. Angel Mercado's band tinkled Mexican popular tunes. In English, an announcer blurbed Mexico. In Spanish, a singer recited a poem to a musical accompaniment...
Five out of ten U. S. citizens probably associate the name Reynolds with Camel cigarets, Prince Albert tobacco or Torch-singer Libby Holman. Nevertheless, in the land where containers are often more important than their contents, Reynolds Metals Co. is a major industrial name. World's largest maker of tin and other metal foils, the company was founded by Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobaccoman Richard Joshua Reynolds. Indeed, Nephew Richard is supposed to have persuaded R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to concentrate on Camels before he struck out for himself...
Then followed Bill Cunningham telling tales of life at Dartmouth and the Boston Post, Johnny Kelly, winner of the 1935 B.A.A. Marathon, Adrian O'Brien, radio singer, and other acts of entertainment...