Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Routine is necessary for a stage career," continued Miss Miller impetuously, "and it makes a hard life. Severe physical and mental training is necessary for me to keep in trip, to dance and sing nightly upon the stage...
...save for these gentlemen, her aunt and newsgatherers, she doffed her plaid coat; on the stage sang Danny Boy and two modern numbers. Signor Gatti-Casazza delegated Mr. Kahn to report; the latter told her to rest for a while, study, come back after a year or two to sing for him again...
...plan to write an opera, now or in the future?' . . ." He got his answer: "NO, I do not intend to ever write an opera-to sing them is enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor...
...produced coffee was brewed and the Arabs organized a barbershop quartee and sang like forty eat fights. As for the Europeans, I broke out a bottle of Mr. Hennessey's famous product, of the third magnitude, and we proceeded to wax very friendly. Presently, the Lieutenant felt constrained to sing of the charms peculiar to a certain lady from Armentieres, wherenon I retaliated with a spirited, I say advisedly, rendering of "Sweet Adeline." Then in semiunison we sang "Madelon" and other songs, while shrinking camels tried to uproot picket pins and the natives applauded deliriously. Oh, it was a splendid...
...Indianapolis the Gold Coast Orchestra broadcasted dance music and specialty numbers. In Milwaukee, Wis., the instrumentalists broadcasted an entire concert. During the performance at Pabst Theatre in the latter city, Harvard graduates joined the members on the stage to sing "Fair Harvard...