Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chartock's company treats Sullivan's music with equal taste. The principals have the support of an excellent chorus and orchestra, and when Lillian Murphy applies a clear lyric soprano of Yum-Yum's "The Sum Whose Rays," music shunts patter aside with great effect. Another celebrated import from D'Oyly Carte, Ella Halman is, as usual, a formidable "Daughter in Law Elect...
...messy situations. He gets his daughter admitted to an exclusive girls' school by calling Old Headmistress Ethel Barrymore "darling," and by singing an oldtime vaudeville number at the school's annual musicale. As for his son, Bing gets one of his songs, Just for You, published. Sample lyric: "Spring is here and all the pretty flowers that grow, grow just for you. Skies are clear and all the little stars that glow, glow just for you." At about this point, when it is plain that Bing will make the grade with his children, it is equally obvious that...
...Stevens began to publish the magazine "Poetry," for which he has won two prizes. He also was awarded the Bollingen Prize from the Yale University Library in 1949. Among his works are "Harmonium," a collection of lyric poems, "Auroras of Autumn," and several plays...
...poetry in the issue is generally unexciting, except for a quite eloquent lyric called Falcon, by Francis Spalding. The other poems, two each by David Chandler and Benjamin LaFarge, are quite ornate, and, in the case of the latter, considerably involved in their sentence structure...
Cartoonist Medley went to work on the lyrics. Joe ("Leadfoot") Darensbourg, a clarinetist with Kid Ory and His "Flat Out" Five, turned out a gutbucket background. Sample lyric...