Word: tibbetts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the start, Your Hit Parade was a hit. Just by playing the country's top tunes-first on the radio (15 years), then on television (9 years)-the American Tobacco Co. sold so many cigarettes that it even produced a new brand: Hit Parade. Lannie Ross, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Fred Astaire, W. C. Fields all marched on the show with such regulars as Dorothy Collins and Snooky Lanson. Then came rock 'n' roll. The sort of stuff that Elvis sings began to lead the Parade, and American Tobacco apparently decided that kids...
...guests, invited such performers as Paderewski and Actress Ethel Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once had John Barrymore to dinner before going to the National to see the Great Profile play Hamlet. Both F.D.R. (he liked Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith and Mickey Mouse, among others) and Truman were major White House impresarios...
...towheaded toddler, Goodie never had to be urged to climb up on a chair and sing or recite for guests. When he reached Manual Arts High School, Goodie swam in his natural element. There was plenty of competition (among his class of 1915: General Jimmy Doolittle, Frank Capra, Lawrence Tibbett, former Lieutenant Governor Buron Fitts), but Goodie rose like a bubble in a glass of beer to the head of the class. He was yell leader, composer of school songs, star of the debating team, an enthusiastic member of the glee club and the dramatic society, a perennial master...
...puffy-faced, balding Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, 57, who at the height of his career turned out an autobiography called Along the Glory Road, traveled a sadder road in North Hollywood, smashed his sports car into a truck, was nabbed by police with a depleted bottle of gin. After slugging a Drunkometer, Tibbett was fined $263 on his guilty plea to charges of drunken driving and hitting the truck...
...Angeles, Mrs. Grace Tibbett, onetime wife of Opera Singer Lawrence Tibbett, sued Sea Captain Horace Brown, another ex-husband, for a bad debt of $2,190, half of which he borrowed on their wedding night six years ago. Why had she waited so long to collect? Simply observing the amenities, explained Mrs. Tibbett. After their divorce, Brown had married Marion Davies, and a suit might have been embarrassing to Marion. However, now that Marion and Brown seemed to be squabbling up to the point of divorce talk, she would like her money back. As for Brown, she added...