Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Countee Cullen, 42, lyric satiric* Negro poet (Copper Sun, My Lives and How I Lost Them) and novelist (One Way to Heaven); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Cullen's early work was informed with a sense of suffering, his late with a sense of humor-he said it was written in collaboration with...
Stork Club is no substitute for a visit to a night club. But it is a good way to see: 1) what Barry Fitzgerald can do with even a thin role, and 2) how Betty Hutton can almost put over a hopeless lyric...
...went off to Milan to study. Two years later he was on the Covent Garden stage himself, singing Cavalleria Rusticana. And in another two years he was a hit at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...
...first act, though long, was enjoyable, highlighted by Miss MacWatters' capable singing of the "Laughing Waltz," a difficult but novel arrangement of the Die Fledermaus motif. A lyric, "Who Knows," was the only outstanding original song and is destined most likely to fall into the clutches of the radio. The second act, getting off to a boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...