Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child actors: when relaxed, he is an attractive kid, and when called upon to act, he is not at all repellent. His battle to save his black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...
After Bach comes a program of Beethoven, followed by post-Beethoven music and requests. Gilbert and Sullivan will glut the air waves on Saturday night, and Sunday morning ushers in a ballad corner catering to hillbilly fans. When the merry-go-round will cease had not been decided...
...work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader Bob Herman has weighted his ten man group heavily on the saxophone side--there are four of them--and has oriented his style around the "smooth dreamy ballad...
...Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
...first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace in 1931 at $10,000 a week) sang There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...