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...Passacaglia: a 17th Century organ form, usually constructed on a ground bass, using a theme of two, four or eight bars...
...program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano, and a siap bass...
...whom Tom had left her. Tom came crawling back, but Julia was really cured. After the first performance of the new show, she went off to a restaurant by herself to have a really good time. She ordered oysters, grilled steak and onions, fried potatoes, a bottle of Bass...
...Alton Giant, reports Dr. Humberd, has good posture for his size and weight, but droops when he sits. The boy's voice "is a weak bass, thick, husky, mumbling and comparable to the enunciation of a patient with an acute quinsy...
...life as a plot for one of his success-novels. South Boston bore and reared him until he was old enough to go on the stage. His first break was the sickness of the regular quartet at the old Bowdoin Square Theatre. The substitute singers included Hurley as bass, and catching the eye of scouts, they moved down to the big money in New York. Under Charles Frohman for three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with all three Barrymores, Pauline Lord, and John Drew...