Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb upon the inevitable piano, stimulated by the applause of many notables. When she had sung, Joe Frisco capered, W. C. Fields was called from his balcony seat to tell a story, a Warner brother took a bow, silence fell. The crowd which had paid $5.50 for seats grew uneasy. At length it was announced that the sound device had been tampered, the operators kidnaped by unknown...
...high light of the program will be the rendition of "Cum Sancto Spiritu" which is a portion of the stupendous B Minor Mass by Bach. This number, to be sung by both clubs, will be accompanied by two pianos and the organ. The Harvard Glee Club is now making plans to sing the entire B Minor Mass two years from...
...Many persons have still to be informed . . . that Dayton hears . . . the best choral music sung today...
...first knowledge Craig had of the theft of his piece was when he went to see "Weary River". He was stunned to hear his song played to less than eight times in addition to being sung by Richard Barthelmess...
...Criticized for bad synchronization in recent films, producers denied their technical incompetence by confessing that "doubles" had sung and talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...