Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only last week Dorothy Killgallen reported (in her syndicated eHarst column), "The Bridey Murphy craze is captivating the town's chorus girls. The belles are meeting by the dozens at one another's apartments after showtime, chipping in to hire a professional hypnotist and sitting around fascinated as they listen to their chums' "regressions" and trying to uncover some intriguing previous existence...
...will forgive me for having answered, 'No, your performance was the worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly, to my sober recollection, that she had ruined my play. What I said was phrased in barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored...
...played in combos all over, even played at the Palace on a bill that included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel. In 1952 Boyce was working in a Chicago nightclub called Liberty Inn, and developed the habit of dropping into a nearby church in the early morning after work to listen to the cool music of the organ. Then he began to stay for Mass. He became a Roman Catholic, and two years later he went to the Servites and told his story to the director of vocations, Father Hugh Calkins, O.S.M. (Order of Servants of Mary). Did a hot saxophonist...
...less ambitious and more poetic, the traditional banks of the Charles have become softer and greener, or perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...
...performance of Karl Kohn's A Latin Fable, for male chorus and piano four-hands. The fable concerns the ass who put on a lion's skin, but Kohn set it rather didactically, giving humor no place. His music was astringent and powerful, and was probably more rewarding to listen to than to sing...