Word: mana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since Miss Christians has been seen in a comedy but she has certainly not lost her touch. In a role that calls for a middle-aged siren, Miss Christians roars about the stage letting loose all that energy she was storing up during the long run of "I Remember Mana." This is not to say she overacts. She makes the most of her opportunities, but not at the expense of her fellow players who prove, anyhow, that they can look out for themselves. Althea Murphy as Ellic Dunn, Robert Harris as Boss Mangan, and Michael Sivy as the burglar...
...natives have an easy answer: the statues flew into place. Even the heaviest statues, they say, if imbued with enough mana (life force), can fly like sooty terns...
Helen Jerome's poem, Nichavo, set to music by Mana-Zucca to become the darling of student singers, distinctly translates the word (with the change in spelling) as "What's it matter...
...Mana-Zucca's most famed song, a favorite of lusty singers like Baritone John Charles Thomas, is I Love Life (so I want to live and drink of life's fullness, take all it can give ...'). This she wrote in 40 minutes, to a lyric by her husband, Bond Broker Irwin Cassel. whom she married after his 46th proposal. They have a son, Marwin (portmanteau for Mana-Irwin) Cassel, 15, whom Mana-Zucca calls "my best composition...
Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...