Word: yodler
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...sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...
Noisy, frizzy-haired Eva Tanguay was headliner at the gaudy Metropolitan cinemansion in Boston last week. Two Kinds of Women showed loose living in a Manhattan penthouse (see p. 25). A yodler, a tap dancer and a funnyman did clipped, automatic turns but there was still an "added attraction," sparsely advertised. After the newsreel the curtain went up again, showed a dumpy, henna-haired old lady standing perched on a platform, her immense bosom shining with sequins as the Old Lady hesitated, looked at the words she had written on a paper before her, began a little gingerly to sing...
LEWIS E. GATES.HARVARD GLEE CLUB. - Trial for accompanist and yodler in Roberts Hall...
...different points of their journey. On their arrival at Chicago on the 24th, Mrs. W. B. Walker receives them at tea; in the evening they are guests of the University Club. Ben. Carpenter '88, is expected to join the Glee Club there and fill his old position as yodler. The Calumet Club entertains them on Christmas Day. December 30th, on their arrival at Pittsburg, supper will be served. At Washington two receptions are to be given them, one on their arrival, the other the following day. Finally, the Harvard Club of New York which gave the 'varsity eleven such...
...Ridde, F. M. Batchelder, L. A. Dewing, E. L. Eustis, F. B. Kidder, Gade, W. Wells, S. Wasserman, J. Kerwin, S. Howells, H. F. Butler, J. Blanchard, I. H. Bell, Ed. Dowset, J. A. Wilder, W. J. Pelo, N. Francis, Allen H. B. Frost, W. Hoag, Loren. Candidates for Yodler were G. L. Burditt, E. P. Jose...