Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago, passengers on the Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, carline used to ride past their destinations, beguiled by the vocal harmony which the trolley's crew furnished. August Van Glove was the motorman, Joseph Thuma Schenck the conductor. Later they bolstered their act with a piano which Conductor Schenck played; entertained professionally in the back room of a saloon, then in smalltime vaudeville houses (their first appearance was, perforce, in overalls), then in big-time vaudeville theatres as "Van & Schenck-the pennant-winning battery of songland." Favorite Van & Schenck numbers: "When You're a Long, Long Way from...
When Bori reached the U. S. 18 years ago (she was 22) success was instant. Two years later a node formed on one of her vocal cords, took away her voice. She underwent an operation which left her a croak little better than a grackle's. She underwent the knife again, went back to Valencia, lived outdoors, burned countless candles to La Virgen Maria and waited months, not speaking out loud. When the voice did come back it was some time before she dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals...
...Halliburton, a resident of Duncan, Okla., with business headquarters at Tulsa, made considerable wealth in the oil business, sunk a great part of it in "SAFEWAY" lines.† Member of no large group in the industry, he has always been one of the most vocal of the air tycoons...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
...program for Saturday is as follows: Banjo Club The Woman in the Shoe Brown Specialty Act Clog dancing by E. N. Hunting '33 Vocal Club Winter Song Bullard Rolling Down to Rio German Specialty Act Accordian numbers by Edward Yeomans Jr. '33 Banjo Club Sing You Sinners from "Honey" Football Medley Speciality Singing trio--J. L. Hutter Jr. '33. H. R. Herrmann '33, and John Heard Jr. '33 Vocal Club Battle of Jericho arr. by Bartholomew Talk about Jerusalem arr. by O'Hara Harvard Songs Specialty Act Magician--James DeRoode '33 Gold Coast Orchestra...