Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Painted Girls. I.Q.s aside, the beauty queens at Atlantic City last week were a dazzling flock. They were handsomer, shapelier, fresher-and looked less like a group of painted chorus girls-than in many a previous year. Chaperons tagged constantly at their heels, shielding them from men, strong drink and the temptation of chewing...
...anniversary in show business, Fred Waring's big enthusiasm is his new career as a teacher. For a long time he and his top musicians have trooped around the country to hold classes in the Waring technique, especially as it fits choral singing. Waring, who thinks his own chorus is the best on the air, complains that he "can't understand what any other chorus in radio is singing...
...Listeners found few tunes to whistle when they came away from Danton's Death, the new opera by Gottfried von Einem. But few could for get the sheer violence of Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant thunder from...
...this smart, sad and savage world, a nightclub owner automatically becomes a pimp for a big Hollywood producer, a small-time gangster messes up a chorus girl's marriage by re-seducing her for the sake of a hideout, a playboy is murdered politely by the man whose girl he makes a pass at. Just as ugly are other stories in which a drunken father fills his son with cold shame, a cynical screenwriter deceives a horrible adolescent, a beautiful but unbearable white girl from Texas tries to make trouble in a Harlem nightspot...
Adding his voice to the swelling chorus, New York's Bishop Charles K. Gilbert, successor to Bishop Manning, reported that his office was swamped with applications for remarriage. He added that the present canon's ambiguous wording had forced him to appoint a committee of two lawyers and a psychiatrist to study each case...