Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personable a singer as his most serious Hollywood rival, Lawrence Tibbett, Nelson Eddy arrived in cinema by an even more circuitous route. Born in Providence, R. I., the son of a manufacturer of equipment for submarines, he made his debut as a soprano in the choir of Grace Church. After a grammar & night-school education, he went to work, first as a telephone operator in an iron works factory, later in the art department of the Philadelphia Press, stayed with that paper, the Evening Ledger and Bulletin for five years as reporter and copyreader. Later he took to writing advertising...
...Singer Lucienne Boyer, Charles Boyer is the son of a country merchant who had him taught to play the violin, encouraged his taste for writing and directing plays which he and his small friends acted in a granary. Early in the War, Boyer, at 15, ran an amateur company to entertain soldiers. On his visit to Hollywood in 1932, he played a chauffeur in Red-headed Woman, bit parts with Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert. After building up his prestige abroad, he returned last year, made Caravan, went home again because he considered the next rôle offered him unworthy...
Mary Moore was nervous but she clutched her chiffon handkerchief and met the test bravely. Her voice is small but it is smooth, appealing. Unlike many a coloratura she was faithful to pitch throughout the laciest passages, took her top notes truly. In appearance the Met's youngest singer is as Irish as her ancestors who, she says, "were kings and poets and all." Her father is an employe of Anaconda Van Service. An uncle, Joseph Eustace, who encouraged her from the start, works for the New York City Government...
...late Billy Guard, the Metropolitan's kindly pressagent, gave Mary Moore her first glimpse of opera when she was 14. Because she wanted so much to be a singer and because he was Irish, too, he gave her free passes, persuaded his friend Edythe Magee to teach her. Her only public appearance before her debut last week was with an obscure opera company in Baltimore...
Divorced. Mrs. Louisa Carpenter Jenney, dashing horsewoman, niece of Pierre Samuel du Pont, great & good friend of Torchsinger Libby Holman; from John King Jenney, du Pont executive; in Wilmington, Del. Rich Mrs. Jenney sheltered Singer Holman in 1932 after the death of her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds, later adopted a small girl to keep Smith Reynolds Jr. company...