Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHRB's LP recording of the Lowell House Musical Society's Acis and Galatea is certainly a bit of good luck. The blurb on the back of the envelope tells us that the broadcast of last spring's performance was recorded as an experiment. It goes on to say that the success justified its release. This is true...
...much of the high quality of the performance comes through on the recording that you wish there had been less luck and more plan. The anti-acoustical Lowell dining hall is the worst offender. The choruses which had clarity both in words and accompaniment have lost much of their color. Presumably the beautiful "Hush ye pretty warbling choir" and "Happy we" were not suitable for release, for there is no other excuse for omitting them...
...Hollywood as her studio mailed to a fan the 1,500,000th copy of the famous Grable-in-a-bathing-suit photo. "People all want to know how I manage to keep them the way they are. I don't have a good answer ... I am just in luck that I happen to stem from the proper genealogical tree. I owe it all to Grannie...
...Managing Editor J. James Loy Maloney summoned his star newshen, trim (5 ft. 5 in., 107 Ibs.) Norma Lee Browning. Maloney, who thought that Christian charity was all too rare a virtue, told her to find out how rare it actually was in a huge city like Chicago. "Good luck," he told her, "but don't be disappointed. You'll find it's a cold, cruel world...
Small-Town Boy. What had made 38-year-old Vaughn Monroe's outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...