Word: gie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some people would blame the relative artistic failure of Kelly's later plays (Mag gie the Magnificent, Philip Goes Forth, Reflected Glory) on his retreating too far from life. "I go out very little," he admits. And when he is working on a play, he is too preoccupied to enjoy being with people - "It's like having a sick child at home." He has written little in recent years be cause he has not been too well himself. But besides Mrs. Sykes he has written another play: a love story called Where the Heart...
Album of Songs and Spirituals (Marian Anderson, contralto; Victor; 8 sides). A collection of light-weight items including Massenet's Elégie, Comin' Thro' the Rye and My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, sung with Contralto Anderson's characteristic sincerity and velvety voice. Recording: excellent...
Squirming about on the floor, on treating big Audy Guadielle to "gie it ta me good," the plaid-shirted Houdini, bearing the best of references from Yale, Princeton, and Penn, kept up a steady stream of Scotch brogue while he struggled out of the knots in two seconds flat. Not letting the program leg for a minute, he then broke out into some ballads lauding bonnie Scotland's "nicht nichts" and "Maxwellton's bracs...
...Nazi invasion is less pathetic than grotesque, less like the end of Man's Fate than the end of A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. When the cat and her kittens come tumbling in and pounce on the rat, the mouse and the little frog-gie, it is still just gamins and spinach. For Author Paul is guilty of one of the oldest of demagogic fallacies: he confuses democracy with its lowest common denominators...
...notch virtuosos. If he made mistakes or got lost, all he had to do was stop the record. The idea caught on. Last year in the U. S. Gamut Recording Co. issued sololess accompaniments to Schumann's Träumerei and Massenet's Élégie, complete with printed parts to be filled in by the player...