Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...
Strong but above all quick was the line he took when the National City Bank branches in Japan were threatened after a rumor that their managers were guilty of "photographic espionage" (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), and when Japanese hoodlums set out to destroy the Singer Sewing Machine branch office at Yokohama with cordwood clubs (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). In both cases Ambassador Grew was at the Foreign Office almost before its officials knew that trouble had broken. In both cases, by reminding the Japanese with courteous firmness what protection their property in the U. S. has always enjoyed, Ambassador Grew...
...been well planned, from the girlhood day in Melrose, Mass., when Geraldine impersonated Jenny Lind and attempted to dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father to sell his Melrose store...
Mildred Fox, featured radio singer of WNAC, will be with McCarthy's Boston Commanders at the Adams House Dance after the Princeton game on November 3rd, it was announced last night by the House committee. The patrons and patronesses announced are Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Abbot, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Conant, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Irwin...
Divorced. George Galt Bourne, 47, son of the late Singer Sewing Machine President Gilbert Bourne, father of Cinemactress Whitney Bourne (Crime Without Passion); by Nancy Atterbury Potter Bourne, 30, Manhattan socialite, his second wife; in Reno...