Word: troubadours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success ? quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable. Half a year ago, though he had a chauffeur to drive his Rolls-Royce, Morton Downey was wondering if he had enough money to hire an orchestra and open a nightclub. He had just come back from London where in 1927 the Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much...
Vastly tickled by his fame, Troubadour Downey has no reluctance in stating that he eats three banana splits daily, has a blue chow named Teddy, sleeps raw* in a double bed, calls his wife "Lover," is covered with moles, bleeds easily when shaving. Superstitious, he still carries a cats-eye ring and holy medals for good luck. Because his name appears in their advertisements, he keeps Camels in his pocket and gives them all to friends. Quick-tempered, he once rebuked a famous polo player who was making too much noise in his night club. Shrewd, when Walter Winchell, famed...
...week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above reproach. But the Lewisohn dancers (who still retain the name of "the Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold...