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...main talent, is good except for Frank Parker, who should be replaced if anyone seated beyond the first two rows is expected to hear the show's main ballad. Gertrude Niesen as "Bubbles LaMarr," a curvesome stripper, is fine. To her are allotted much of the good comedy material and the only good songs --"I Wanna Get Married" and "Follow the Girls," and she makes the most of her opportunities...
...enuff Beers in me I don't mind her, in fact I'll Singer that ol' ballad 'Way Down Upon the Sweeney River.' Even though she penalized me five minutes for Holden last time, I still Skord in the first period...
Acuff, son of an oldtime fiddler, was a second-string radio singer a few years ago, when Columbia Recording Corp., trying to trace an old English ballad, The Great Speckled Bird, found that Acuff knew it and hundreds more. Columbia signed him up. Since then, he has made four motion pictures (two still unreleased) and barrowfuls of money. Recently he put down $25,000 cash for an old mansion on Nashville's fashionable Hillsboro Road...
...Ballad Maker. Critic Eliot suggests that, before judging Kipling, it is well to make sure that you know what he was trying to do. "Kipling," Eliot believes, "was not trying to write poetry at all." He was a writer of verse which often, but always incidentally, came to life as poetry, as in " 'ark to the fifes a-crawlin'." He was a ballad maker, using that most ancient form of art and journalism brilliantly to impart truth and emotion. He was devoted not to the poem as poem, the verse as verse, but always, and utterly...
...more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no poet who is less open to the charge of repeating himself." In Danny Deever, as in dozens of other ballads, "there is no single word or phrase which calls too much attention to itself, or which is not there for the total effect." Besides a talent for the ballad, Kipling had, to an unusual degree, the talent for occasional verse. "Good epigrams in English are very few; and the great...