Word: dulcet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost overnight, with Victor, Columbia, Capitol and Decca waxing it fast, "A" You're Adorable ("B" you're so beautiful, "C" you're a cutie . . .*) was a case of "H" you're a hit. In two weeks, Como's dreamy, dulcet disking (Victor) alone has sold a quarter of a million records. Says Businessman Buddy: "The other two guys just can't get over...
...U.A.W. were not exchanging four-letter epithets. They were hard at work on a new kind of contract. To "the U.A.W.'s threat of a strike and demands which totaled 45? an hour, G.M.'s grey, forthright President Charles E. Wilson had thought up a surprisingly dulcet answer...
Weisgal was probably unaware, however, of the growing dramatic frustration arising in the dark corners of Sanders Theatre, where female candidates for the title role cowered. As the dulcet tones began to flow from Weisgal's lips, three 'Cliffedwellers strode out of the casting hall in disgust, but the remainder decided to see their disappointment through...
Died. Laird Cregar, 28, dulcet-voiced movie behemoth; of a heart attack following an abdominal operation after dieting away 100 lbs.; in Los Angeles. Because of his size (6 ft. 3 in., 300 lbs.), Cregar had a hard time persuading Hollywood producers that he could really act, let his first picture, Hudsons' Bay, in 1940 speak for him, promptly became one of the screen's most popular portrayers of psychopathic, blood-curdling bad-men (Joan of Paris, The Lodger), had just completed, before his death, a new melodrama. Hangover Square...
After the performance, Chicago's critics were amiable indeed. Glowed Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Tribune: "Her Juliet is breathtakingly beautiful to the eye and dulcet to the ear ... an exquisite performance within her vocal limitations, and considering the way she looks, not many are going to quibble about a few notes here and there." Said the Sun's learned Felix Borowski: "The singer has the small, almost the adolescent voice, which gave her vocalism the girlish timbre at least, which some other Juliets of operatic history-most of them fair, fat and forty-generally have lacked...