Word: singing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...course of his monkeyshines, during which he pauses occasionally to juggle, dance, sing, play & tumble, versatile Mr. Cook introduces several hundred startling prop laughs. Always genial and ingratiating, he does everything from lighting Dave Chasen's mustache to making a hole-in-one with a small coal shovel...
...recent killings seem to have involved, besides the Hip Sings and On Leongs, traditional enemies, the four other principal Tongs, neutrals in past "wars." Federal deportation-threats and New York City police made the Tongs accept two ineffective peace treaties. Killings continued, baffling police. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle decided to set up his own "Benevolent Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed...
...last year, she left behind. She languishes, she said, for Schnurri and the other estate animals-Schnurri's summer lay of kittens; horses, police dogs, dachshund, and a little white lamb. Husband von Popper, gallant and taller than Jeritza, escorted her to San Francisco where she is to sing in a pre-season Tannhäuser and Salome. There he was to leave her and return to Vienna until the end of the New York Metropolitan season, which, he remarked, will be the last he will permit...
...lyricists and songwriters of the show go most of the credit for its success. Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, who were responsible for many of the tunes in last year's production, have produced three memorable numbers: "Foolish Face," "Sing Something Simple," "Lucky Seven." Perhaps even more tintinnabulating are the melodies of Messrs. William M. Lewis Jr. and Ted Fetter: "My Heart Begins to Thump! Thump!" and "What A Case...
...Second Little Show has a star it is small Ruth Tester, who weighs 88 lb. and once rowed on the Smith College crew. Having appeared in The Ramblers and Follow Thru, she it is who grimaces and capers through "Sing Something Simple," an elemental little ditty which consistently interrupts the performance...