Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Singer Manufacturing Co. sells sewing machines in almost every part of the globe where clothes are worn. So long does it take to assemble Singer figures from the preceding year that the annual meeting can never be held until September. Last week, having accounted for the very last nickel, yen, leu, franc, shilling, florin, drachma, peso, pengo, rupee, escudo, zloty, mark and finmark. Sir Douglas Alexander, Singer's venerable president, announced that profits for the year 1933 were...
Founder Isaac Merritt Singer had no sooner launched his enterprise in 1851 than he became involved in countless lawsuits with Elias Howe and other sewing machine inventors. Founder Singer paid his lawyer, Edward P. Clark, in Singer stock, and it was not long before Mr. Clark's interest was as big as Mr. Singer's. But Founder Singer was quite content to leave the business in Mr. Clark's hands, departing for Europe, there to live a gay and gaudy life, in which there are legends of no less than nine wives and 21 children. The Clarks...
...taste and talent. On that score the producers of Keep Moving had bad luck.* Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently derivative tunes. Then there are the Singer's Midgets, awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse and scores of Three Little Pigs. The problem of what could be done with midgets in the theatre has long bemused Broadway. Keep Moving has not solved...
Pretty Virginia Loomis, 18, soft-voiced night club singer, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, operated on for appendicitis. Eight days later she was dead of amebic dysentery. Broadway wailed its grief...
...world Dolores got her start with stocky, tousle-haired Jacob Epstein for whom she posed for a long series of John Singer Sargent painted several por traits of her before he died. Many times she posed for Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, and Christopher Richard Wynne influenced by Futurism and the first to renounce it. Even snobbish Philip de Laszlo decided that Dolores was as important a figure as the princes, promoters and prelates to whom he normally devotes his easels...