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...Brooklyn, old, drunken Dennis Eddington appeared in an "L" station, made a speech, said he was an eagle, sang "Sweet Adeline." A train approached the station. Dennis Eddington jumped in front of it. After being run over, he was found by a policeman upside down, his feet caught in the brake rods, his head between the ties, unhurt, still singing...
Musical: A WONDERFUL NIGHT, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, SONS O' GUNS, THE LITTLE SHOW, BITTER SWEET...
Famed actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay...
...BORN? and DON'T EVER LEAVE ME (Victor)-Helen Morgan sings these as she does in Sweet Adeline, thinly, quaveringly, with all but the legs showing...
...BORN? and HERE AM I (Victor)-Jazz that is also music, written by Jerome Kern for Sweet Adeline. Leo Reisman's version has smooth saxophones, smooth violins...