Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show's biggest asset is pint-sized Nancy Walker (Best Foot Forward, On the Town), who, as class-conscious Yetta Samovar, shows all her likable toughness, sharp timing and comic verve. But Nancy Walker's biggest asset is her way with a good brassy ballad, which she chants in a good brassy way, and Barefoot Boy allots her exactly...
...Productions, a committee of undergraduates engaged in promoting theatrical productions and celebrity appearances, announced yesterday that it will feature Josh White, "America's favorite ballad-singer," in a concert to be held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium Friday...
Remembered by recordings such as "Lonesome Train," and Columbia Workshop broadcasts, the tall, lanky, blue-eyed singer has played his banjo and sung his songs for millions of people from coast to coast, with such other ballad "greats" as Doody Guthrie and Alan Lomax...
...sang a handful of French torch songs, she tore at her blue-black hair, embraced an imaginary lover, went through the motions of strangling herself in one ballad, dropped to the floor in another (after supposedly swallowing poison). The crowd in Manhattan's Cafe Society Uptown loved every minute of it. Her one song in English, Hands across the Table, still carried a Paris label; despite three engagements in the U.S. before the war, she had been careful not to learn English too well...
Memorable nickleodeon flickers and documentary films are included in a six-program motion pictures series opening February 11 at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall with "A Nous La Liberte," "ballad of the liberties not permitted by the modern world," and "People of Cumberland," a story of education in the Tennessee hills...