Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director of the radio show Stop the Music asked the Boeing Airplane Co. to donate a four-engined Stratocruiser as a prize in the "mystery melody jackpot," saying the publicity would be worth $75,000 to Boeing. The company refused, gently pointing out that the double-deck, 80-passenger aircraft needed a crew of five, sold for approximately...
Where's Charley? (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; produced by Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard) sets to music that old piece of nonsense with nine lives, Charley's Aunt. The result is not happy, less because the 55-year-old farce is dead than because the new procedure is deadening...
...Ferrer, the horseplay about an Oxford student who impersonates his aunt from Brazil so that a lunch party will have a chaperon was mostly fun because it was magnificently frenzied: farce is among the few things with the right to advocate violence. The new version not only has music that is pretty poor, but, as a way of halting the high jinks, every tune might as well be Lead, Kindly Light...
...present the band is looking for sultry female singers. The Boston Conservatory of Music has shown the most possibilities in that line, but the hand is hoping to secure some hopeful from Radcliffe as their steady vocalist...
...blare of Harvard trumpets will open the Radcliffe song contest November 16 when the University Band marches to the Annex quad to supply the annual competition with music and color...