Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Performers on Your Blind Date include a perky songstress, Connie Haines, a funnyman, "Tizzie Lish," a band, the Melodates, recruited from John Scott Trotter's Orchestra, guest comediennes and starlets from the studios. Music and patter are not all. To one lucky mother each week, Mistress of Ceremonies Scully gives a chance to read her own letter to her own son. Distant sons can hear the program by short wave from San Francisco's KGEI. This part of the show is one big reason the soldiers like...
Twentieth Century has been considerably disturbed because Sal's big secret leaked out: Rita Hayworth's Grade-A singing voice belongs to Radio Songstress Nan Wynn. Fortunately for all concerned, the voice sounds like Rita. And no pseudonymous voice ever had a more attractive sponsor...
Last week's Command Performance put the whole Fred Allen troupe on the air, plus Songstress Gladys Swarthout, Sportswriter John Kieran, Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, Comic Henny Youngman. Mr. Kieran talked about sports and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The band played Deep in the Heart of Texas for some homesick Marines in the Caribbean...
When Turnblazer first moved into the town of Jellico, Tenn., on the Kentucky border (where Songstress Grace Moore once sang in a church choir), miners were fighting for subsistence wages. Operators, who included subsidiaries of U.S. Steel Corp., Ford, International Harvester, fought to keep wages down, keep Turnblazer's union from trespassing. The shock troops of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association were "special guards," sheriffs and deputies...
...onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from the pen where he had been sent for hornswoggling Philippine Railway investors, once-affluent William Buckner said he was busted, that his wife Adelaide Moffett, blue-blooded songstress, is paying their $800-a-month household bills, A plea of Mae West's forgotten husband Frank Wallace for $1,000-a-month temporary support was thrown out of court after Mae said she had an overdrawn bank account, a purse with less than $50 in it, receipts for jewels...