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Word: thees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, Lois Moran topped a middling success in last season's This is New York with an appearance in the smash-hit Of Thee I Sing. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, and, to a far greater degree, Lupe Velez, are currently enjoying a profitable association with Florenz Ziegfeld in his ornamental Hot-cha! An old leading man of Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...program for the Plymouth concert tomorrow will include the following numbers! "Hallelujah Chorus," by Beethoven (to be sung by the combined choruses); "I Will not Leave You Comfortless," by Byrd; "Gently Johnny," English Folk song; "Choruses from the 'Mikado,", Sullivan; "Fire, Fire, My Heart," by Thomas Morley; and "To Thee Alone Be Praise," by Bach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB OPENS VARIED SCHEDULE OF 1932 CONCERTS | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

...fezzed President Khalid Sheldrake of the Western Islamic Association touched her hand, said: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...France, but sententious Protestant Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York was furious last week. He had been to see one of the most amusing two acts of musical insanity current on Broadway, Of Thee I Sing. An early scene in the play represented the campaign headquarters of Mr. Wintergreen, candidate for the U. S. Presidency. When he jilted the winner of a beauty contest, who turned out to be "the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon," the bishop's pulse remained about normal. Then the French Ambassador, represented as a fidgety little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Bishop & Gag | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Harris, who has a sense of humor as well as a sense of publicity, turned the letter over to the newspapers. Librettist Kaufman handsomely offered to delete the scene if the Bishop would write a substitute equally funny. Consul General Count Charles de Fontnouvelle, interviewed, remembered having seen Of Thee I Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Bishop & Gag | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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