Word: ballades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day, U.S. Communists got around to paying their tribute to Little Father Lenin at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Climax of the memorial rally was unquestionably a song (see cut). The words were by C.I.O. Organizer Vern Partlow, music (a prolonged monotone) by leftist, talented Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans, Porterhouse Lucy). Robinson rendered it in person, strumming his guitar and crooning close to the party line...
...cigarets, buried his hawk's head in a book pointedly titled A Nation Betrayed. Behind him sat Pandit Jawar-halal Nehru, chain-smoking Chesterfields, wearing Western-style clothes for the first time in eight years. Between Karachi and Malta, Nehru breezed through Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane, chatted with his good friend, Sikh leader
...chance with the Bruins last year, feels that ex-G.I.s will not swallow the old get-out-there-&-fight-for-dear-old-Siwash line. Instead, in the dressing room before each game he plays a short concert on a portable record player. First conies a sentimental ballad or two, then something a little solider, and finally, just before kick-off time-On, Wisconsin! Alter that, nothing needs to be said...
...Firmly established as the No. 1 U.S. song hit at summer's end was a ballad called...
Raymond Walburn and Mary Wickes, moviedom Sad Sacks, in company with Jed Prouty and Robert Chisholm, turn in top character jobs all good for the expectable number of laughs. "Don't Be a Woman if You Can" is first-rate patter and "There's No Holding Me" likeable ballad. But there's no getting around something stale--you've heard it before, you've seen it before, and it isn't good enough this time to make you think you haven...