Word: cuckoos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recorded-to sell to her friends at $2.50 a copy-by Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins, rich, elderly amateur soprano and musical clubwoman. Mrs. Jenkins' night-queenly swoops and hoots, her wild wallowings in descending trills, her repeated staccato notes like a cuckoo in its cups, are innocently uproarious to hear, almost as much so as the annual song recital which she gives in Manhattan. For that event, a minor phenomenon in U.S. music, knowing Manhattanites fight for tickets. Mrs. Jenkins is well pleased with the success of her Queen of the Night record, and hopes to make others...
...find something appropriate for this gigantic cuckoo clock to sing, experts combed zoos and aviaries. At the home of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, they thought they had found what they wanted: an East Indian bulbul named Greenie, who had been adopted by the bird-loving Osborns as a pet. Greenie was a magnificent singer, with a voice of extraordinary range. But he was so temperamental (he did his best singing in the bathroom while the water was running) that the idea had to be dropped. Engineers compromised on another Osborn pet: a Mexican nightingale (Myadestes...
...difference between the indescribable hash E. Power Biggs makes of a Bach Chorale Prelude, and the superb gusto and vigor he puts into a Handel organ concerto, is to me one of the seven wonders. In the latest in the Victor series of Handel organ concertos, the Cuckoo and the Nightingale Concerto, Album M733 he plays most delightfully on the Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone...
Wodehouse usually anchors his cloud-cuckoo land in Shropshire, Sussex and London. Dominating the loony Wodehouse landscape are two hoary eminences-Blandings Castle and its proprietor, "that amiable and boneheaded peer," the ninth Earl of Emsworth. In the course of some 40 years of nonsense, the multiple Wodehouse nitwits and their overlapping, interlacing misadventures have come to revolve more & more dizzily around Blandings. Hence only confirmed Wodehousians are sure if the stories are one great inspiration or several. Experts incline to recognize four...
Some of the twelve scenes started toward straight satire but most of them wound up utterly cuckoo. When Savo performed a drunken surgical operation, his patient's insides yielded a number of colored balloons, a string of sausages, and finally a Punch & Judy show. As a washerwoman by a stream, he was interrupted, for no ascertainable reason, by the passing - of an invisible fox hunt, but returned to the amorous contemplation of a union suit. Time & again he was a citizen of a never-never land as fantastical as that inhabited by Krazy...