Word: singing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic. Typical shot : Oakie composing a song to sing to his society sweetheart and then finding that she has only been encouraging him to get a laugh...
...administration he engaged the Chicago Symphony for ten weeks. Excerpts from operas were included in the programs, became increasingly popular. Important members of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies were engaged. They liked to be invited to Ravinia. Last autumn Bori received a cable asking her to sing this spring at London's Covent Garden. To accept would have meant deserting Ravinia. Her answer was: "I go to Louis...
PAUL ROBESON, NEGRO-Eslanda Goode Robeson-Harper ($2.50). Many a U. S. citizen, white and colored, has heard Paul Bustill Robeson, in the flesh or on a phonograph record, sing "Ol' Man River," "Water Boy" and many another movingly mournful song of his race. Those who have seen him know he is young (32), tall, powerful, coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda...
...Sunday. She was, of course, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public. Her vaudeville debut last week accompanied the showing of Mamba, scenario of which was written by her son Ferdinand. Her recipe for endurance : "I know how to sing now. I don't shout as I did when I was young." Mme Schumann-Heink's 69th birthday speech: "Some day, of course, I shall die. Out on the stage I would sing the last note of a song. I wouldn't want to die before the audience...
...following will sing...