Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before he went to prison Captain van Schaick, then 71, had persuaded a woman to marry him. When he arrived at Sing Sing he said: "Today, instead of being a criminal, I should be considered a hero. I hope for a pardon." This, when Mrs. van Schaick pleaded, U. S. President William Howard Taft despatched to Captain van Schaick...
...Vocal Club, led by A. A. Holbrook '28, has chosen to sing two groups of numbers ranging from the "Prayer of Thanksgiving," a Dutch folksong, and "Thou Art My Own Love" by Redding to "Scandalize My Name," arranged by Burleigh, and "Johnny Harvard...
...standards what is being done by those who do. The Story: Although famed Emily Post's outline of etiquette has run through 17 printings, people keep on asking her new conduct-questions. Recent examples: "Do you think it would be attractive to have the groom sing a solo at his wedding . . . and do I stay with the groom after the wedding most of the time?" Another: "How do you teach children not to swallow fish bones?" Another: "How can I develop sufficient ingenuity to be a cook-waitress and at the same time a cool, tranquil and charming hostess? . . . when...
...summer festival with bonfires & a burgomaster's daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well as critics who had taken the pilgrimage from other cities, regretted that there was no consistent loveliness in the score, that Soprano Helen Stanley & Baritone Marcel Salzinger had had to sing alternate measures of beauty and chaff. But the whole they found skillful stimulating, worthy of the Strauss of the tone-poems and the songs far worthier of production than many of the so-called novelties that have found their way into the repertoire of the Metropolitan and the Chicago companies...
...heroic Englishman. Unhappily she is in the power of a gigantic local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed in many glowing colors. Lacking only briskness Golden Dawn is the early winter's most eminent sample of its type...