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...sound absorbing. The cognoscenti need know no more than that he sang numbers ranging from "Molly Malone" and "On Top of Old Smoky" to "Strange Fruit" and Hard Time Blues." One of the most poised persons in the entertainment world, he handled songs like "John Henry," "The Foggy Foggy Dew," and "The Outskirts of Town" in easygoing style, though he had no microphone. Between his song groups, Josephine Premice did Haitian dances and sang quite nicely, thriving on the almost overly enthusiastic drumming of her accompanist...
...collaborator Nunnally Johnson's hand in the scripting. Ira Gershwin's customarily witty lyrics fare well under the care of Arthur Margetson, recently of "Around the World," who sings "Land of Opportunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly wife in Broadway's original "Blithe Spirit," who solidly sends "The Dew is on the Rose" (pro-early divorce: "before they ever rifted, they drifted--apart"), and the show's best song...
...introduced Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor in 1939 had there been such a buzz of anticipation in the Berkshires. Six thousand musical pilgrims, who had bought their tickets weeks in advance, sat shivering in Tanglewood's Music Shed. Outside, in the chilly evening, another 2,000 huddled in the dew-covered grass. They were gathered to hear the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's new Ninth Symphony...
...high, already hot. Frank Anderson fingered the heads of several wheat plants. The morning dew was drying fast; soon it would be safe to start cutting. But first there was a lot of nursing to do on the two Anderson combines. They are old-one 17 years, the other 16. Every moving part had to be greased. Frank tried the baling wire that holds the slats together on one of them; he hoped it would last through another...
...wasted on what youthful horse-opera fans impatiently call "love stuff." What there is plenty of: gorgeous outdoor backgrounds of feverishly tinted canyons and corrals; convincing skullduggery by a lowdown villain (Bruce Cabot); wonderful incidental ballad singing (Blue Tail Fly and a Johnston office version of Foggy, Foggy Dew) by Burl Ives, 270-lb. troubadour making his movie debut as a guitar-thumping ranch hand...