Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose. He sang "Never Tie a Knot in a Billy Goat's Tail'' while his wife "Powder River Kitty " in another ten-gallon hat. played the guitar. Back in his hotel Powder River Jack Lee received reporters, expressed himself on the way cowboy songs are sung over the radio: One old cowrboy I know pulled his six-shooter and plugged a hole right through his own radio when he heard one of them cowboy crooners ! The cowboys never crooned or whined. And they never yodeled. If they had, we'd of strung them...
While the German Empire lasted, its national anthem (sung to the same music as Britain's "God Save the King") was Heil dir im Siege skranz-"Hail thou whose victor's crown safeguards thy realm's re- nown; all hail to thee [i.e. the Kaiser]!" After the Fatherland became a Republic, its Socialist first President, Friedrich Ebert...
High point of the performance is a song, "Across the River," composed by the playwright and sung by David (Walter Richardson). If you liked The Green Pastures, 01' Man Satan should remind you in spots of that more profound, more seriously comic predecessor...
Since the War, San Francisco's opera, like Los Angeles', has been limited to a brief autumn season when artists from Chicago and Manhattan have gone out, sung with a local orchestra, local choristers. San Francisco's opera has had healthy, general support. Instead of a Samuel Insull or Mrs. Bok it has had 2.500 member-backers who have contributed from $50 to $100 apiece. Until last year it paid for itself. And this year, when Chicago's and Philadelphia's opera houses are dark, the lights will go on in a house made possible...
...publisher. Husband Mesritz persuaded his young wife to study singing. Every day for three years he took her to the studio of Teacher Alberto de Gorostiaga (who comes in now for 5^ of all her earnings). No one cared then (least of all Paris where she has never sung) that she ate chicken sandwiches for breakfast, liked yellow dresses, hated champagne, elevators, telephones. Such things became matters of acute interest to New Yorkers, who are particularly pleased with the fact that Pons is French. They think it is delightful that she will buy 5? apples and eat them...