Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hippodrome's gulf-like stage to answer wildly enthusiastic curtain calls. Her arms filled with bouquets, more piled on the floor around her, she knelt in acknowledgment. Tears welled to her eyes, her voice choked as she thanked two leading stage characters of her race for their tributes, Tenor Paul Robeson and Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson...
Last year it occurred to the Mallorca police that there were "too many Americans" in Mallorca. They arrested U. S. Writer Robert Macalmon and Negro Tenor Roland Hayes for defying a local ordinance against boarding the daily boat to Barcelona to say good-by to friends. On the technical charge of not registering passports they arrested a U. S. woman who produces little plays in Palma, a man who edits a little U. S. newspaper. Still new waves of Americans swept over Mallorca...
Last week Britain's U. S.-born Department Store Tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge held the rope of the great tenor bell. Shocked by the lapse of a British legend, he had paid for the restoration of Bow bells. He handed the rope to white-ton-sured Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. The oldsters of the Ancient Society of College Youths who traditionally ring the bells stood ready. Archbishop Lang leaned firmly on the bell-rope. Across Cheapside the great bell of Bow-said again."I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" The eleven smaller bells chimed...
...like to think ''The Long, Long Trail" was written, Stod King's initials are carved on one of the big round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined...
...carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights that he goes mad and is removed to an asylum. Lilly Turner consoles herself for her husband's dipsomania and the sad tenor of her existence by having an affair with the strong man's more personable successor (George Brent). She is about to run away with him when there occurs the one moment in Lilly Turner that possesses an element of dramatic action. The lunatic strong man escapes from his asylum...