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...Booker T. Washington High School, also gives piano lessons at home. Over the years she has set hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother, "just like she was their own mama"). But in spite of her popularity, Miss Green retains some ideas with a refreshingly old-fashioned flavor: "There is never a time when I don't want to teach. But in like manner, I never grow tired of studying, and always hold to the belief that one cannot be a successful...
...waiting shark. When the fisherman pitches into the water, Manidou gets the rest of him. Guinéo, who hates to study, gets rid of his tutor by taking him out for a row, pulling the boat's plug and letting Manidou handle the rest. Only Mama is really shocked by her son's tricks; daddy and grandparents can hardly conceal their admiration for the little fellow...
Bark Worse Than Bite. Sinatra rejected so many tunes, in fact, that his worried business managers began hounding him to accept one. "Finally I told them: 'The next song Mitch suggests, I do.' You know what it was? Mama Will Bark-and I sang it with Dagmar. I growled and I barked on the record, and I guess it sold, but the only good it did me was with the dogs...
...play even has scattered bright spots of its own: Playwright Appell shows a knack for brightly stenciling familiar characters and situations, and if his dialogue seldom has wit, it often has sass. Thanks to a good cast, Lullaby coaxes a certain amount of routine amusement, first out of Mama's-Boy Meets Girl, then out of depicting home and mother as more like oil and water. But to such standbys of comedy it brings no new insight and only limited verve. Hence it is forced into utter disregard for tone-one minute realistic comedy, the next shameless shenanigans...
...sort of school, Mrs. Walter Thomas of Milstead, Ga. might not have found his letter so shocking. But little Louis is partially blind, and the school he goes to is the Academy for the Blind at Macon. Last week Louis' letter was causing quite a scandal in Georgia. "Mama," he had written, "they're beating us down here. Come...