Word: vocalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church," runs the clerical proverb, "means a dead parson." No fragile parson is J. Duncan Spaeth, who, at 67, has a voice so thundering that it routs other professors from adjoining classrooms when Dr. Spaeth chooses to pull out his vocal stops, impersonate Shylock or Othello in the grand manner. Last October the trustees of three-year-old University of Kansas City reached him by long-distance telephone, reminded him that his age would automatically retire him from Princeton soon, coaxed him to become their University's first president (TIME, Oct. 14). J. Duncan Spaeth roared, spluttered, accepted...
...Sorrento by the sea. There is, to be sure, the hackneyed admixture of sacrifice, misunderstanding, running out at the last minute, and reappearing at an even later minute to displace the incompetent substitute. Also on the debit side is the fact that both Gladys and Jan know more about vocal cords than histrionics. But there are many snatches of freshness, and Jan keeps you fairly excited by a fiery vigor amounting almost to daftness. Gladys, moreover, does not invite you to shut your eyes, however rapt you may be on account of here voice. And then, both of them...
...concert will include performances by the vocal, banjo, and mandolin, clubs, and the Gold Coast Orchestra, as well as several speciality acts. It will be the first of two successive appearances in as many days for the clubs, which will also entertain in its annual concert at the Milton Club tomorrow evening...
Henry B. Robbins '36 will direct the vocal club, which will render three songs, "The Drums," "The Pope," and "Winter Song." An outstanding part of the program is the "Juba" piece...
...first two lectures were entitled respectively "The Old Way to Be New" and "Vocal Imagination...