Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Featuring old favorites like "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Beautiful Dreamer" mixed in with several football songs, the vocal group of the Instrumental Clubs jumps into the season of activity tonight with a short concert during the pre-Army game dance at the Hotel Continental...
Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...
...helpful in getting the material into shape, and presently Thomas headed for England, where he wowed the Britishers with his tales of Lawrence in Arabia, Allenby in Palestine. So popular was the Lawrence show that Thomas was able to travel round the world with it, assign Carnegie and lesser vocal lights to handle four second-string companies in England. Altogether, Thomas delivered "With Lawrence in Arabia" over 4,000 times, to over 3,000,000 people, made over a million dollars from it. By product from his lecture was the book With Lawrence in Arabia, the first of a spate...
...eight-minute quintet for flute and strings, based on A-Tisket, A-Tasket, was the brightest bit. Ross Lee Finney gave out Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang the vocal himself. And so on. None of the music would have set Saratoga Springs on fire, but it probably would have pleased Katrina Trask, who used to say: "At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame...
...past three years undergraduates have become increasingly vocal on the subject of Faculty appointments. In the year and a half ending last winter hundreds of students and dozens of undergraduate organizations including Phi Bota Kappa and the Student Council petitioned President Conant to reconsider administrative decisions. This storm of protest, precipitated by the dismissal of ten assistant professors in 1939, penetrated the calm atmosphere of the Faculty room last fall, where a number of well-attended and heated sessions took place. The storm petered out last winter, and later it was announced that two of the ten men had been...