Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gade's assistants will be C. M. Under hill '31, Henry Schniewind '31 and A. C. Ingraham '31; these men will be in charge of the Vocal Club, the Orchestra, and the Specialty Acts division respectively...
...competition is open to all members in the University, and is divided into three departments. They are vocal, specialty act, and instrumental. The vocal work consists of group singing; the specialty acts are usually given by magicians, ventriloquists, and musical artists; and the instrumental department is open to players of any type of instrument...
...hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from Alice in Wonderland...
...Vagabond stood irresolute, no, he was sitting--and silent. Just then the music swung into pianissimo and the violinist rendered a vocal solo. The Vagabond listened, hoping, nay praying, for a suggestion in the words that might provide a topic for small talk, however banal. The violinist's voice was excellent....What was he saying...
...princess; to Joy, 12, who had never in all her life seen her mother "dressed up"; to Louise Homer herself who was singing at the Metropolitan for the first time in eight seasons. For the audience it was just as memorable, for Contralto Homer had lost little of her vocal power and none of the grand manner that projected every little gesture to the furthermost corners of the house...