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Sugarpuss is a lady who jives by night-a sort of songster-stripteuse in a nightclub. Unable to communicate his plan for syphoning off her jargon, Potts eventually gets his message across after being told to "shove in your clutch, Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Maurice Chevalier, camel-lipped love songster (". . . every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.") sang & danced for French war prisoners in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Conductor Paige chose his 75 Young Americans from 2,000 applicants. Their ages range from 17 to 26, average under 21. His tuba player was a janitor; a trombonist, a truck driver; a violinist, a housemaid; the concertmaster, a welterweight boxer. Songster for the Young Americans is Carolyn Cromwell, redhaired, 19-year-old Kansan. The orchestra has already made its first recordings; when RCA Victor's Music Director Charles O'Connell heard the Young Americans rehearsing, he put them under five-year contract. Because a radio sponsor is eyeing them, the Young Americans have made only one concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sweet Youth | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Died. William Danforth, 73, roaring, scowling delight for half a century of U.S.' Savoyards; after long illness; in Skaneateles, N.Y. Triple-tonguing Songster Danforth estimated he had sung the title role in The Mikado 1,000 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Wodehousian to the last, he cracked: "Maybe this will give me the material to write a serious book." When dusky Songster Maxine Sullivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 17, 1940 | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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