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...line. Each part, from soprano to bass, is melodic and fun to sing. Woodworth has long spoken of madrigals as after-dinner music, and on Friday he proved his point by placing his 16 best singers around a table for several of the pieces. Morley's My Bonny Lass and Shoot, False Love sounded especially buoyant in this arrangement...
...simple Irish lass named Bridey Murphy has now resolved the puzzle that so troubled Hamlet. Bridey died in Belfast in 1864, but in 1952 and '53 she came back from "the undiscover'd country" to tell a well-to-do Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist named Morey Bernstein what it is like after death...
...asylum on a dinky Paraguayan gunboat reduced the 60-year-old dictator to a lonely eccentric and tawdry libertine who liked his girls young, his gadgets golden, and his plunder plentiful. Almost the first witness that the new regime's investigators turned up was a sun-ripened lass named Nelida ("Nelly") Rivas, 16, who apparently had been in and out of Don Juan's bedroom since...
...seemed to be basking in a kind of prosperous complacency. Calm Clement Attlee hastened about in a Humber Hawk chauffeured by his wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened...
...Glass Slipper breathes, as Lili did, the atmosphere of a latter-day fairy tale. It is, in fact, the Cinderella story rewritten with the sort of sophistication best confined to the perfume ads. The prince (Michael Wilding) no longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...