Word: ballads
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...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...
Plush chairs caused trouble in Paris too. The reason: fleas. Thousands of the active insects, charmed out of the Luxembourg Palace's aging red plush chairs by the human warmth of some 1,200 delegates, kept the peacemakers busy scratching. A U.S. correspondent offered to write a ballad entitled: "I've Got That Luxembourg Itch...
Then there is Broadway Actor Ralph Bellamy soberly reading Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (Victor, 4 sides), and Orson Welles smacking and grumbling solemn words from Pericles to Lincoln (No Man Is an Island; Decca, 10 sides). Less noisy: A Walk in the Sun (Disc, 6 sides), a chronicle ballad of the famed Texas 36th Division, sung by Composer Earl Robinson. Strictly for their fans is the patter of Jimmy Durante (Decca, 8 sides) and Bob Hope (Capitol, 8 sides...