Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular colored vocalist for Chick Webb's band, Ella Fitzgerald will be imported to swing several numbers in her accustomed style. Ammons will come to the Yard from the Cafe Society in New York to demonstrate the boogiewoogie style of piano playing...
Miss Skinner is not only beautiful and a superb artisan. Her production is as polished, professional, and thoroughly competent as any that has come to Boston this year. Shaw is never dull even when played badly; when played as beautifully as it was last night before a spell-bound audience at the Colonial it is superb...
...poet laureate, last surviving petal of the literary flowering of New England. By the next autumn, feeling "like my own survivor," Dr. Holmes had died quietly at 85 in his armchair. It was their only meeting. But of the next New England literary generation, Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe has come nearest, by temperament if not by talent, to carrying on the Holmes traditions...
...dictionary on which Hollywood is currently engaged, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell contains valuable material, much of it authentic, well-presented, exciting. Cinemaddicts will learn that Bell's first words over his new device, spoken just after he had spilled a bottle of acid, were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." The picture then recounts Bell's partnership with Mabel Hubbard's father (Charles Coburn), his patent fight with Western Union and his meeting with Queen Victoria...
...cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel hand of iron. There is the lovely orphan lass from the south ho has come to live with her uncle. And in the centre of its al there is the same roaring saloon with swinging doors and husky voiced entertainers hipping their ways around. It is, of course, a western with modern trimmings--a Cast of thousands, Technicolor, and saloon women's gowns by Adrian or somebody...