Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burlesque vaudeville act, called A Couple of Song & Dance Men, was comparatively easy. Fred worked it out in a mere ten days with a stand-in dancer and then taught Bing to mimic the standin. Astaire's considered critique of Crosby's hoofing: "Bing is a wonderful performer. His dancing tickles me to death. But if I said he was a good dancer, it would be the same as Bing calling me a good singer...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist-mimic, with Songstress Jo Stafford as guest star...
...Perfect Figaro. These vocal varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...
Manhattan-born Abram S. Burrows, who looks like an accountant or a salesman (he has been both), worked as a Wall Street runner, a board boy, a coat label peddler until he was nearly 30. Then he sold gags to Eddie Garr, the mimic, for $125. That turned him into a radio writer. Until last summer, he wrote Duffy's Tavern...
...natural-born mimic with a voice box in its trachea, the Mynah lives all over the orient, especially in India and the Malay Penninsula. Not all Mynahs can be taught to talk. Those that can are a gold mine for bird fanciers...