Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bing Crosby is probably the world's best paid male singer ($275,000 a year). For Going Hollywood he got $75,000. He was born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby...
...loudly protested that Caras had shoved rather than shot the cue ball in making one point. The referee waved Greenleaf away. When he continued to argue the referee disqualified him. Next day Greenleaf fans learned their idol had filed suit for divorce from his wife, a Eurasian vaudeville singer who calls herself Princess Nai Tai Ta. When they were first married eight years ago Mrs. Greenleaf took a lively interest in her husband's work, wore a brown en semble at his games for luck. At exhibition matches she also essayed to sing accompaniments to Greenleaf's fanciest...
...soprano soloist's rendition of the largo ("Going Home") movement from Dvorak's New World Symphony at a private recital of the Westminster Choir School in Princeton, N. J. so moved Albert Einstein that tears flooded his eyes. Afterward he enthusiastically congratulated the wrong singer on the performance...
Chester R. Singer '35 defeated Alden H. Bryan '35, 3-2; Douglas C. Scott '35 defeated Robert M. Peet '36, 3-2; Francis E. Strobhar '36 lost to Max L. Baughman '35, 1-3; William D. Black '34 defeated Alvar W. Polk, Jr. '35, 3-0; Seth H. Low '35 defeated Robert M. Saul...
...British novelist and voyageuse; of pneumonia; in Hongay, Tonking, French Indo-China. A suffraget before the War, she aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding...