Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patient Albert is due to have his name immortalized in return. It is inconceivable that, even with all her genius, his spouse could have risen to such proficiency unless she had had him to practice on. In what manner he provided occasion for his wife to exercise her vocal gifts will probably never be known; his efforts, or his misfortunes, will remain as one more quiet sacrifice to progress. It is enough to know that he has been true to his calling, but what he was called will never be known...
...paper claims that over half of the modern Americans who will cheer for Purdue have never even been through the town in which Purdue is located. Probably that is true, but just the same 300 modern Americans will be in the stands stratuing every chord in their vocal organs and they will root with might and main for "dear old Purdue." We had never thought of it before but that little phrase "dear old Purdue" is almost as catching as one sometimes connected with Harvard, and we are glad newspaper...
Five separate divisions comprise the organization of the Instrumental Clubs. These are the Banjo, Mandolin, and Vocal Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Speciality Division. The Banjo and Mandolin Clubs are the two oldest organizations, and are devoted to the playing of marches, popular tunes, and light classical selections. In order to make a more balanced program, however, the remaining divisions were added one after the other, four years ago. The Vocal Club, the first to join the two older clubs, is devoted to the singing of light numbers, college songs, and the like...
...come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family retired, the Little Foys because they were emerging from their first childhood, Eddie because he was entering his second. By that time he had grown into a theatrical legend of fatherhood, of wierd vocal inflections, of furious stage gestures, of boisterous acting. He removed to New Rochelle, N. Y., remarried, settled down...
...songs in which the "character" is supposed to be, for example, an idiot boy who constantly wipes his nose with gusto on a homespun sleeve; 2) Sir Harry's habit of "forcing" new songs written by himself (and for sale in the lobby) on an audience which gives vocal and unmistakable signs that it wants chiefly his "old favorites"; 3) the extreme conceit and cocksureness with which Sir Harry presumes to address his audiences, a mannerism which delights some proletarian* hearers, but causes many sturdy citizens quietly to withdraw; 4) the primitive range and calibre of Sir Harry's voice...