Word: cooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said one of them last week, after a nasty fight with a policeman, "you shoulda seen that copper! One eye 'angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...
...excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between the prostitute Jenny and her pimp. To a wistful tango melody they coo...
...well-planned opportunities for the Lunts to display their past mastership at all the bright surfacy wrinkles of their profession. If, in time, a blindfolded Lynn Fontanne can identify certain members of the audience, almost any blindfolded member of the audience could identify Actress Fontanne from a single coo. In The Great Sebastians, however, the Lunts' cooing counts for less than their billing: the show is liveliest when it is making fun of show folk, and the Lunts are most delightful when they are capering as hams. The plot also permits them their moments of deft heroics, and some...
...Lest philanthropy be thought philandering, he keeps his identity a secret. Leslie knows him only from his shadow, seen once in an odd light, as "Daddy Long Legs." However, there is nothing more certain in Hollywood than the fact that to the man who pays the bill belongs the coo...
...offered Golden Age of the Theater ($5.95), a horror of prehistoric recording in which the voices of the great dead can occasionally be distinguished. Among them: Sarah Bernhardt, who sounds like a harp seraphic tuned to the emotional level of Mother Machree; E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who coo as ponderously as a pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet. Teddy Roosevelt is here with his high-keyed whinny, and William Jennings Bryan with the sound...