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...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
Kirsten Flagstad, greatest soprano of U.S. opera, who untold times has ho-yo-to-hoed Brünnhilde's clarion calls, last week seemed to be in Brünnhilde's plight-hemmed in by a ring of fire. From Oslo in her native Norway, whither she flew last April to join her husband, came a report that her husband said that Flagstad would remain there until war ends...
...eight, Beemer stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 200 lb., is an excellent horseman, a superb shot, a handy man with a 35-ft. bull whip. His voice is so much like Graser's that his substitute version of the Ranger's famed cry to his horse: "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" will scarcely be noticed by the nation's moppets. All along, he has represented the Ranger in his few public appearances. In 1933 when Beemer as the Lone Ranger made a personal appearance at Detroit's Belle Isle on the occasion of an annual public-school...
Gentmun, suh, draw yo'selves up a chair and have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...
...Koussevitzky threw up his hands, cried: "A native Flagstad!" Next day, at a private picnic given by Koussevitzky to the members of the orchestra and a few hand-picked critics and musicians, Soprano Maynor, perfectly poised, warbled faultless coloratura, crooned deep Lieder, went to town on a Wagnerian Ho-yo-to-ho. The gilt-edged professional audience marveled at her versatility and easy form, found her rich voice one of the finest in a generation...