Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though without much voice-he classifies himself as a "bastard bari-tenor"-Actor Slezak made the audience laugh almost every time he opened his mouth, particularly at his first-act entrance, when he was bundled in fluttery finery and carried a small live pig (rubber diapered) under his arm. Whatever critics thought of the rest of the performance, no one had an unkind word for Walter. Said he: "Maybe the Met should apologize to me for the mixed reviews; I came out shining like a rose...
After countless TV appearances. Diahann landed the role of Clara in Sam Goldwyn's gilded production of Porgy, was horrified when Musical Director Andre Previn permitted her only to mouth the lyrics to Summertime, dubbed in the voice of French-English Songstress Loulie Jean Norman. Explains Previn: "Diahann's voice was a full five tones too low." But Previn also thinks that Diahann has only begun to find her way on that ladder. "When she learns to relax as much on a nightclub floor as in the studio," says he, "she ought to scare people to death...
...there, late last month, surgeons finished the job of correcting nature's errors. They freed Phillip's windpipe from a useless connection with his stomach, made a continuous passage from mouth, through throat and gullet, to stomach. After intravenous feeding during convalescence (and almost three years of being fed liquids through a tube), Phillip Culpepper demanded an egg. Last week he got it-fried, "over easy." Far from wealthy (her husband is a journeyman plumber), Mrs. Culpepper had gambled $1,000 in legal expenses and $2,000 in medical bills to give the boy a chance for normal...
Miss Bel Geddes and Fonda turn in fairly wooden performances, but there is not much they can do with a script that requires them to mouth such gems as, "God, you're sweet" The minor parts are not badly done, but this is essentially a two-person play. And that includes the audience...
Misplaced Modifier. In Louisville, while trying energetically to pronounce a difficult word in a Russian-language class, University of Louisville Coed Brooke Johnston dislocated her jaw, had her mouth shut by a doctor, could not open it again for a fortnight, had no recourse but to drop the course...