Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trills, roulades, la-la-las and rarefied staccato eek-eeks of the coloratura are of ancient tradition. The most famed of all coloratura heroines, Lucia di Lammermoor (music also by Donizetti), goes mad, to the accompaniment of an implacable flute. That is typical. Most coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most...
...Columbia Artists, Inc. She also had a profitable sideline in selling her tour wardrobe designs to U. S. dress manufacturers (at $600 apiece plus 7% of the sales). By last week, as she was preparing to Clipper back to France, members of the U. S. haute couture were boiling mad. They were maddest at her continued insistence that the U. S. was too money-conscious to originate its own fashion trends, that Paris, ruled by the Nazis, still ruled the world of fashion...
...other words, an opponent who is quick on his feet can throw Schoenberg, let him up, and throw him again, each time collecting points toward the referee's decision. If Ted can somehow get his man down on the mad, however, the chances are that he had the match. Ted's doing well so far this season, but because of the new ruling it is a question whether he will be able to repeat his record of previous years...
...nightmare. . . . A supreme insult to the composers. . . . The perverted betrayal of the best instincts, the genius of a race turned into black magical destruction. ... If the man [Beethoven] who turned against Napoleon had lived to see the inside of a Nazi concentration camp his torturers might have driven him mad by the performance of Mr. Stokowski and Mr. Disney...
...Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a lively dance routine, croons a torchy ballad. Jimmy Durante garbles his Bronxese with dialogue like: "I resemble dat remark! . . . Dat's libel! . . . It's libel to make me mad...