Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark Tenor Peerce's mother wanted him to study medicine, but he learned the fiddle, played and sang with Manhattan dance bands, was launched in the Music Hall by the late Samuel A. ("Roxy") Rothafel. When Peerce protested that he was too short and "funny looking" for the stage, Roxy replied: "You're the tallest man in the world! You're the handsomest man in the world! All you have to do is believe that...
Miss Garcia enjoys her job because "there are many fine people in burlesque," but does not plan to continue in it much longer. Stage-door Johnnies give her some trouble as does her fan mail. Husband to have "Personal Broadness...
...Kansas City last week, police treated 15 motorists to a free jag. The drivers took two-ounce shots of whiskey every half-hour, meanwhile tried to sort playing cards, drive and back police cars in narrow painted lanes. Purpose: to determine at what stage of drunkenness a driver is at his worst...
Larry Adler met Paul Draper in 1933, when mouth-organ dates were scarce. The late Samuel A. ("Roxy") Rothafel had a stage set with three doors, had hired Draper and a girl singer to enter two of them. Adler wangled the job of coming in through the third, competing with Draper for the girl. Adler and Draper became friends, finally got together to try for concert-hall audiences in Chicago last year...
...date English classes listen to recordings of poetry, stage radio broadcasts, make movies-it all is supposed to help to arouse their interest in learning to read and write. At the convention, delegates watched a model radio broadcast by Atlanta high-school pupils, saw a class at Atlanta's Murphy Junior High School cinemacting...