Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little German town of Perleberg some 30 years ago a lusty argument went on between a round-faced, pig-tailed girl and her practical, hard-working father. The child was determined to be a singer. The father wanted her to teach school to be sure of getting a pension in her old age. When Lotte Lehmann's singing days are done she will get a pension from the proud Vienna Opera where she is a Member of Honor. By the time she sailed for Europe this week many a hard-to-please New Yorker was convinced that hers...
...Singer Thomas' Managers...
Divorced. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, 43, toothy Los Angeles evangelist; by David L. ("Iron Man") Hutton, 32, adipose choir & vaudeville singer, her third husband; in Los Angeles, day after Mrs. Hutton withdrew her cross-suit. Grounds: cruelty (lack of confidence, public discussion of marital intimacies...
Divorced. Grace Hayes, singer; by Charles J. Foy, son of oldtime Comedian Eddie Foy. Reasons: troubles of money, career...
...turn a waltz routine into something that resembles a panorama painting of an army on the march. Songs in Wonder Bar are superior to those which Al Jolson sang in its stage version in Manhattan four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin on the canebrake to a night club in Paradise with Gabriel performing on a saxophone...