Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raggedy pig-tailed Gretel was Soprano Queena Mario who in California once sang Micaela to Farrar's Carmen. Farrar recalled how at that performance she had gone to the young singer's dressing-room and fairly dragged her out to bow before the curtain. Instead of a long-winded analysis of Humperdinck's music, Farrar sang the children's prayer, playing her own accompaniment. Listeners were amazed at the freshness of her voice...
...elegant Paris law office young Count René de Chambrun, son of the French Ambassador to Italy, swiveled around last week to face a reporter. "Miss Elsa Sittell is very religious," said he. "She was once a choir singer in a Bronx Catholic church. She is very conscientious and it is her habit to say what she thinks. She is of a nervous temperament. "We are doing everything we can." continued Count René. "I have appealed to the French Foreign Office and to the American Ambassador...
...your Hitler looks Jewish," observed the onetime Bronx choir singer to a German customs guard who was going through her baggage. "I don't think Hitler is a German anyway. His type is certainly not Teutonic-so what's the idea of his treating the Jews the way he does...
...English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero de la Triste Figura. He was getting $200,000. To look more like the lank old knight he had dieted and exercised to reduce his barrel figure. Spectators on location noted that the fastidious singer-actor Flitted daily the ribby old horse playing his steed Rosinante (TIME...
...cinemaddicts who share the Princess' feeling about crooners, Here Is My Heart will reveal the fact that Bing Crosby is not only an accomplished singer but a talented comedian. Nonetheless, it is neither Crooner Crosby nor his songs ("Love Is Just Around the Corner," "It's June in January," "With Every Breath I Take") that make Here Is My Heart such agreeable entertainment. Aimed at intelligent audiences, written with wit, directed with a proper sense of style by Frank Tuttle, it has the immense advantage of having such performers as Roland Young, Alison Skipworth and Reginald Owen...