Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout (Pat O'Brien), the waiter fails dismally at his audition, later gets another chance when aided by a soap-hour singer (Ginger Rogers). The two love but are separated by O'Brien who does not wish to alienate Powell's 20,000,000 admirers. When Ginger Rogers once more helps Powell, the sponsors and radio folk are so impressed by their singing together that they are glad to hire...
Born. To Marcia Gluck Davenport, biographer (Mozart), daughter of Singer Alma Gluck Zimbalist: a daughter; four hours after an airplane flew her from Newark at 15,000 ft. to avoid air bumps; in Pittsburgh...
Divorce Revealed. Sonia Abuza Tuck Westphal Lackerman ("Sophie Tucker"), 50, actress, oldtime singer; from her third husband, one Albert Lackerman, Manhattan dress merchant; in Chicago (September 1933). Grounds: cruelty, demands for money, slapping...
...Revue" on the stage is an improvement on the screen show, its brightest moments being provided by the radio singer, Grace Hayes and her vocal imitator son and the three Slate Brothers with their remarkable adagio dance...
...Central Park. She keeps no maid, shops at Macy's. There last week she bought coffee and stockings to take home to her friends. Two New York friendships of which she is particularly proud are with Arturo Toscanini and Geraldine Farrar. Toscanini, who has small patience with most singers, goes to all her performances. She did not recognize Farrar when first she saw her in the front row at her last year's concert. The oldtime singer was listening so intently, so sympathetically that Lehmann found herself addressing every song...