Word: lune
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...sometimes Grandmama came to visit. She was regal and beautiful. She told little Beatrix wonderful stories of her youth-about the adorer who had first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny...
...tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real melody that isn't too long, too involved or too deadly. For instance, they want me to try the Moonlight Sonata...
...good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare de Lune" by Larry Adler with his harmonica...
...Universal: "Through the hall of our great Bellas Artes Theater there reigned ... a contagious chilliness. ..." Said the English-language critic of Novedades: "It seemed the result of a desire to outdo Kostelanetz in misplaced lushness. All that remains now is to transcribe the work [Debussy's Clair de Lune]. . . for the Wurlitzer organ...
...melody is tortured with hints of boogie-woogie, until finally, happily, Hazel Scott surrenders to her worse nature and beats the keyboard into a rack of bones. The reverse is also true: into Tea for Two may creep a few bars of Debussy's Clair de Lune. Says wide-eyed Hazel: "I just can't help...