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...Harvard Glee Club no longer takes part in the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contests. It disapproves of the programs. The Intercollegiate finals will be held this summer in Chicago as part of the World's Fair celebration. Pomona's college song, "Torch Bearers," will be sung as a tribute to the 30 boys who traveled by daycoach from Claremont, Calif, to St. Louis last spring to win first prize (TIME, April...
Brunswick Record Corp.'s Manhattan laboratory has lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...
...Philadelphia Orchestra Association, called Fell "not the kind of man to take his own life . . . not a quitter." In 1923 Fell was fined $500 and costs on his discharged butler's complaint that Fell and two servants had beaten him and tried to brand him with a torch because the butler knew Fell rang false fire alarms for excitement. Next month his wife divorced him on grounds of drunkenness...
Torchsinger Libby Holman's tonsillectomy had opposite results. Her voice became lower, huskier, made her Broadway's overnight rage. Tampering with singers' throats is always dangerous. If Tito Schipa's voice should drop like Torch-singer Holman's, he might have to renounce his romantic tenor roles, become a villainous baritone...
Libby Holman Reynolds came to Manhattan in 1924, the talented, pretty and vivacious daughter of an able Cincinnati lawyer whose professional abilities she was presently both to tax and to advertise. She rapidly acquired fame and a fortune estimated at $150,000 by singing "torch songs." After the death of Smith Reynolds, Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert ("Ab") Walker, Reynolds' friend and secretary, were indicted for murder; it was established that Libby Holman Reynolds was pregnant. Last November the State of North Carolina lacked evidence to prosecute its case against Mrs. Reynolds and Ab Walker. Libby Holman Reynolds went...