Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan Opera singers helped impress Ann Arbor with Merry Mount's musical worth. Baritone John Charles Thomas, whom Manager Gatti lately engaged for next season, sang the heretic clergyman's music in a voice marvelously smooth and strong. Soprano Leonora Corona made a pneumatic Cavalier siren even in her formal, up-to-date evening dress. Demure Rose Bamplon was Plentiful Tewke, the Puritan maiden who was not quite tempting enough for Wrestling Bradford...
...cockpit of the Bellanca, named Santa Lucia, he rigged an overhead water tank, a siren and a time clock. When the General feels drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
...Beer," the companion-feature, is that it is fine beer propaganda, now a rather useless strip of celluloid. The story, however, is more than worthy of the Keaton-Duraute combination, which seems to have lost, such of its original pop. In addition, Phyllis Barry is undoubtedly the most excellent siren of the season...
George Raft is not too successful as the cab driver. He was like a puppet guided by an inexpert amateur. Especially in the scenes with the society siren did he show his lack of versatility in acting. A pleasant contrast to the poor interpretation of Mr. Raft was the almost flawless acting of Miss Sidney. She has remarkable reserve in depicting sentimentally emotional scenes which Helen Hayes, who has been so highly praised, lacks. Without a flood of tears, with the slightest modulation in voice, which paradoxically should be the reaction of the opposite emotion, she can show her consternation...
...Murat Halstead. Cincinnati journalist famed among other things for having witnessed and vividly described the hanging of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Margaret Halstead's father, friend of Lawyer Cravath, was until recently U. S. Consul General in London. His strapping soprano daughter was a nervous, inexperienced siren as Venus in Tannhäuser last week, but she sang the difficult music accurately, often beautifully. Critics who might have deplored her lack of experience put her down instead as a promising young singer who in time might become an asset big in drawing power as well as body...