Word: las
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trills, roulades, la-la-las and rarefied staccato eek-eeks of the coloratura are of ancient tradition. The most famed of all coloratura heroines, Lucia di Lammermoor (music also by Donizetti), goes mad, to the accompaniment of an implacable flute. That is typical. Most coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most...
...Las Vegas...
Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...
...band to be deducted. Other studios, gasping at the result, quickly signed up further favorites of the jitterbug generation, for pictures that are now on their way. Paramount put Artie Shaw into Second Chorus, Orrin Tucker (and Bonnie Baker) into You're the One, expects to start Las Vegas Nights with Tommy Dorsey by month's end; Jimmy Roosevelt's Globe Productions hired Horace Heidt for Pot O' Gold. R. K. O., not to be outdone at its own game, has already completed Let's Make Music starring Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats, plans...
Assistant in Oral Surgery: Harold LaS. Pierson, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, D.M.D...