Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl from home who wants to be a singer in the city?this tale is often told. In this case the home-town doctor has hypnotized her into believing she cannot sing ?after a throat operation. He of course wanted to marry her. In the closing moments of the play she recovers both voice and balance, bursts into song, and everybody is content. Dorothy Francis, once of the Chicago Opera Company, favors with the unusual combination of an actress and a voice...
...awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
...PETERSBURG, Fla., May 13 (AP) - Thomas Mott Osborn, 80, for more than a quarter of a century warden of Sing Sing prison, N. Y., died here late today. He had been ill for several weeks...
...been warden of Sing Sing for a "quarter of a century." He had served at that prison for nearly two years...
...choruses will compete at 6.15 o'clock on the afternoon of the Jubilee. Each chorus will sing two songs of its own selection. In addition one song, a Dutch folk song called "A Prayer of Thanksgiving" will be rendered by each one of the choruses separately...