Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose you take a guy with a mellow manner and a voice of blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby...
Faced with record demands on its normal facilities, the Department of Physical Education has decided to open the Indoor Athletic Building four evenings weekly, to add three additional hours to the daily use of the squash courts, and to open the squash courts Sunday afternoon. These changes, which go into effect Monday, were announced yesterday by William Neufeld, of the Department...
...getting rid of such production frills which add nothing to car performance (and may save car buyers dollars eventually), Browning hopes to pile up savings of $20 million, based on a "normal" million car year (slightly more than current production: 3,800 units per day). Only a shift into high-gear production could make up the rest...
...elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from an expensive seat or from the peanut gallery. Better just chuckle and enjoy it-if you can manage to hold back the tears...
...there is no denying that musical values are sacrificed by overemphasis on stage effect. Conductor Goldovsky's order to his singers not to look at him during the course of the performance, for example, may have added to the stage reality of the production, but it surely did not add to the necessarily exact timing between the orchestra, solo voices, and chorus. And despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English words, no one interested in music will ever be reconciled to hearing the quick rhymes and smooth-flowing Italian diction of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte exchanged...