Word: lullabye
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¶ The whodunit sequence in which Sidney Greenstreet plays Brahms's Lullaby while he tells Peter Lorre how to rub out Humphrey Bogart.
In London, Hollywood's Gloria Jean, ex-cinemoppet-turned-ingenue, fainted onstage as she was singing a lullaby. Responsible, she guessed, was "the unhappy business about my singing the Lord's Prayer." London critics, who considered the song (by Albert Hay Malotte) in bad taste, had vigorously lambasted...
Dr. Strecker considers it significant that when Bing Crosby toured the South Pacific, the song which troops demanded most often was Brahms's Lullaby. Plaintive, demanding letters from mothers to their sons in the service, he thinks, did much to undermine the boys' morale.
Lullaby. In Kansas City, police, summoned by irate neighbors kept awake by a parked car's blaring radio, rushed to the car. found Owner Waldo Wilson sound asleep inside.
Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a...