Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike Columbia, which has cached its master records of early jazz, Victor has thrown away all its popular discs made before 1925. Among the records Victor junked were 4,000 by one man: broad-faced Billy Murray, balladeer and comic...
Florence Reed gives a raucous portrayal of the defiantly ignorant leader of the troupe. The argument for the body, as against the mind, is heavily weighted by the appearance of blonde Lois Hall, as the ingenue, in a variously colored succession of tights. But the play's comic never approaches its physical appeal...
Manhattan has seen many of them but last week it recognized the first good one in a long time. Nearly every classic Italian comic opera has a basso buffo, a comic bass. He wears a false nose, false belly, or both, and is not expected to have much of a voice. Fourteen years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted Milan's great La Scala opera, he asked one of his young bassos, Salvatore Baccaloni, to specialize in buffo roles, so that La Scala need not rely on rickety-voiced oldsters...
Chicago and San Francisco have known and appreciated Basso Baccaloni, but not until last month did he make his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, singing a minor comic role in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Fortnight ago he took the centre of the stage, in the title role of Donizetti's Don Pasquale: a waddling, foolish old party, so much put upon that when he got slapped by a soprano minx he touched real pathos. Last week Baccaloni waddled again, this time as walrus-mustached Sergeant Sulpice in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment...
When crater-mouthed Comic Joe E. Brown took a wife 25 years ago, they were married in Manhattan's Municipal Building and rode home on the subway. "Some day," promised Joe, "we'll have a real wedding, in a church, with organ music and flowers and all the rest." Last week Joe and wife observed their silver anniversary and acquired a barrel of publicity by getting remarried in Hollywood's St. Thomas Church, with their four children as attendants. Afterwards they took a commemorative ride...