Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Lawrence Tibbett, singer, and Jennie Marston Adams Burgard Tibbett : their first child, a son, weight 7½ lb.; in San Francisco. Baritone Tibbett has twin sons, aged 13, by his first marriage. Mrs. Tibbett has three sons by two previous marriages...
...London reporters, Negro Singer Paul Robeson declared that he would never again sing in Italian. French or German, was looking instead for a "great Russian opera or play, or some great Hebrew or Chinese work which I feel I shall be able to render with the necessary degree of understanding." Said he: "I do not under stand the psychology or philosophy of the Frenchman, German or Italian. Their history has nothing in common with the history of my slave-ancestors. So I will not sing their music, nor the songs of their ancestors. . . . The trouble with the American Negro...
Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...
...comes a glimpse, through the drawn shades, of the Bulfinch drawing rooms, and of the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons, filled with the light of the Boston Transcript. Closed to the Boston, which is now Greater, is a world, a complete world, sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End. Turn down an empty Glass! Or so we read in the magazines...
Marriage Revealed. Helen Morgan, 28, torch singer; and Maurice ("Bud") Maschke Jr., Harvard Law School graduate, son of onetime Republican National Committeeman Maurice Maschke of Ohio; last May in New Castle...