Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soprano Grace Moore was always full of plans. They carried her from her Slabtown, Tenn. home to musical comedy, to opera, to Hollywood and back to opera and the concert stage. Last week her ears were still ringing with the cheers of some 4,000 fans in Copenhagen's biggest concert hall, where she had sung Ciribiribin. "When the Iron Curtain descends on my voice," she had said, "I would like to be appointed Minister to Denmark." Meanwhile, there were more concerts to be given, a sick husband (ex-Movie Actor Valentin Parera-once called the "Ronald Colman...
Stiffly stuffy Charles de Gaulle last week heard that the French Government wished to present a special medal* to him, Stalin, Churchill and (posthumously) Roosevelt. De Gaulle approved the other three, but bowed himself out with giraffe-like grace. Said he, updating Louis XIV: "Governments do not decorate themselves. The acts that I accomplished were done at a time when I exercised the function of Chief of State...
Died. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 40, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince; in the airplane crash that killed Grace Moore; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...evening was spent in uneasy warfare between those who wanted to stop the show every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time have we heard...
...hero, Steve Canyon, would be a lean and squinty, older version of Terry; a fellow with an easy, insolent, Gary Cooperish grace that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen. Canyon knew the world and its airlanes-and its women-as his granddaddy would have known the way stations on the Overland Trail. So he went into business on a shoestring as Horizons, Unlimited, and took for his trademark an old Navajo double-eagle design (see cover). His first customer would be a tough one: a wolverine of Wall Street, slinky Copper Calhoon...