Word: ballades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most adult Britons preferred not to talk about war, they could not stop Pop Singer Chico Holiday (real name: Ralph L. Veizolino) from wailing about it. On every jukebox last week was his blood-and-tears ballad...
...Summer to Remember. The Soviet film industry, which has recently been testing products of high entertainment yield and low propaganda fallout (Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man), now releases a warm and wonderfully funny story of a little boy's life with father in contemporary Russia...
...novel gets much of its quality from the convoluted Jamesian style, which is hardly suited to song. Still, Composer Moore ( The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Ballad of Baby Doe) was fascinated by the story of a young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles...
Born. To Nat King Cole, 42, breathy ballad crooner, and sometime Singer Maria Ellington Cole, 37: identical twin daughters, their fourth and fifth children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Keystone cops. Blindfolded by their helmets, billies more or less at the ready, they go through their maneuvers like a ruptured accordion. Moreover, Guthrie has the courage to salvage the unsalvageable. At one point, the major general is the very model of comic relief when he buries a boring ballad by aping a concert singer ineptly palming a prompt card. When the card flutters away like a leaf, he imperturbably unpockets another, finally loses his aplomb in a venomous facial duel with the orchestra...