Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Daughters of the American Revolution recently denied the use of their Washington hall to Negro Singer Marian Anderson, and because of their consistently illiberal stand on political, economic and constitutional questions, we recommend that their name be changed to the Defenders of the American Reaction...
Simple Soul. Late one night in 1931 a Russian tenor named Vladimir Doriani hunched his small, round bulk into a Russian train on the way from one small town to another. At about 2 a.m., dozing, he began to look at other passengers and they looked strange: like cutouts. Singer Doriani, who had always hated pictures felt overcome by a desire to draw...
...real name is André Isaac. He is a singer, an actor sometimes at the Deux Anes (Two Asses) theatre, author and editor of the funpaper L'Os à Moelle (Marrowbone). Each weekday at 13 h. 5 ( 1:05 p. m.) for the last year he has sent Parisians by the hundreds rummaging high & low for varying collections of oddments, to be produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into...
...Puzzled by the nervousness with which famed Artist John Singer Sargent undertook a portrait of her husband, Mrs. Wilson found that Sargent had been talking to Henry Cabot Lodge, who had told him that the portrait "presented a great opportunity for the artist to serve his Party." Reason: Sargent's skill in finding the animal counterparts of human beings, "thus reveal some hidden beastly trait...
Concerned with nothing more than the romantic meeting and somewhat prolonged courtship of a European fortune hunter (Charles Boyer) and a Kansas-bred nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), it frequently falters in pace. It also includes a few sequences which, reminiscent of Director McCarey's work for Hal Roach, are among the most adroit cinematic touches of the year. Good shot: Irene Dunne, prevented from getting married to Boyer when a car cripples her legs, waking up to fave the consequences in a hospital...