Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hall choruses will sing almost in tune; so will various players in the two huge orchestras. Speakers will try in vain to make themselves heard; so will be chaperones. A few upperclassmen will break in; the rest will stay at home and smile...
...Mogul. There is probably a wide public for the type of entertainment in which an Irish tenor sends the show out for recess every now and then and sings a couple of ballads. This one even takes time to tell a funny story when the plot begins to lag. Fiske O'Hara is his name. In this play, by De Witt Newing, he is not a poor Irish lad arriving in this country but a full blown business man. The notion of Elbert Gary suddenly holding up a conference of the Steel Corporation to sing about shamrocks is interesting...
Before supper the three hall choruses will sing. They will be judged by Mr. W. C. Hellman '00. Instructor in the Music Department of the University; Mr. Harrison Potter, Boston pianist; Mr. A. S. Potter '17, Dr. A. W. Wright '17, who has directed the hall choruses in their preparation, explained last night that, while the judges would mainly consider the singing, attendance during the year, and the number present at the Jubilee will be factors...
Some Negro singers refused to sing because they had been "segregated" in the audience. This turned out to be a mistake of the box-office...
...Elliott headquarters hastened the reporter. In his mind burned a vision of inextinguishable deviltry-pirates, in look-me-over clothes and patent leather pumps, dicing for stock certificates upon a keg of dynamite. Instead, he found the Elliott sales force met together for a sing-song and smoker. They were mostly young men, dapper but demure. A fake, the Phonofilm Corporation? Why, they told the reporter, President Coolidge himself knew of it. Sure enough, the investigator beheld a phonofilm of the sharp-faced President, on the White House lawn, reading a speech...