Word: basse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Merman has been given better support in Hollywood than on Broadway. George Sanders, as the Prime Minister of Lichtenburg, is amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
...attaché, an opportunity to display his pleasant singing voice and limber legs. It also gives veteran Movie Villain George Sanders a chance to play a romantic role for a change, which he does attractively, and to sing for the first time on the screen in an agreeable lyric bass voice...
Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...
...Accepted a season ticket for the presidential box for the Washington National Symphony, admitted (to Conductor Howard Mitchell) that he prefers bass voices and piano music...
...elegant recorded sound make this the first fully satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...