Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graceful and effective pronunciation is always a sticking-point in English, but the choruses and the soloists dealt with the problem well. The words were quite distinct, if I some times did feel spat upon. Several instances of unusual word-painting had delightful enunciation: "silver (seelver) and gold," "nostrils," and...
The soloists carried off the few solos in the oratorio excellently. The women, Junetta Jones and Janet Winburn, sopranos, and Betty Lou Austin, alto, had strong, vibrant voices. The men, all from the Glee Club, equalled them: Robert McKelvey, Clayne Robison, basses, made "The Lord is a Man of War...
Oscars to Come? All through the Eagle years, he looked for the right big picture, found it in 1951 on a shelf in the Warner Bros, story department. Spiegel dusted off The African Queen, surprised filmland by casting it not with regular types like Robert Taylor and Betty Grable, but...
From Fashion to Faith. Elizabeth Seton was born in 1774 to the Bayley family of pre-Revolutionary New York. Her father was a doctor, and her family was related to some of the great Dutch pioneer families-the Roosevelts and the Van Cortlandts; Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were close...
The Setons settled down in a fashionable home near the Battery. But by the turn of the century, William Seton's fortune had collapsed, and so had his health. On their doctor's advice, they went to Italy in 1803, where Seton hoped to recoup his health and...