Word: neveral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...band has always been a family affair: Guy, Carmen and Lebert own it. Sister Rose Marie (now Mrs. Henry Becker) once sang, but, says Guy, "never took it seriously." He doesn't exactly say so, but he gives the impression that the defection of kid brother Victor, who quit playing saxophone with the Royal Canadians three years ago to get up his own band, was just about the most disturbing thing since the secession of the South. In a way, all of the band members are in the family. If one musician dislikes a new song, out it goes...
...Royal Canadians' favorite fan is Mama Lombardo, who now lives in Connecticut and never misses a broadcast or a record. Papa Lombardo, who once sang at church socials in Ontario, has never yet really come around. Once, after a broadcast, Guy phoned and asked him how he liked it. Papa muttered noncommittally. When Guy pressed him, he finally snapped : "If you're looking for compliments, I'll put your mother...
...full of memories. Enrico Caruso still seemed to him a "semi-god." He also bowed to Basso Chaliapin : "What a stage personality! I would never undertake Boris [Godunov] after Chaliapin." To Rothier, singers are different today, although since his retirement from the Met in 1939 he has tried to teach newcomers the old ways. "Nowadays," says he, "there are very few great voices because everybody is in such a hurry to become a star. They win a contest by singing one aria - and they are stars before they are ready...
...playhouses and its audiences have been dwindling steadily for a generation, but Broadway likes to stake its survival on a romantic cliche: the theater is "the fabulous invalid" that never dies. By this summer the invalid had grown so feeble that a doctor was called in. For diagnosis and prescription, the League of New York Theatres (most of Manhattan's producers and playhouse operators) hired Public Relations Man Edward L. Bernays...
Elijah was a man lunching in a Manhattan sidestreet cafeteria. Day after day, Rowe found him eating there at noon, and for three weeks he returned to study each line and plane of the luncher's face. Artist and subject never exchanged a word. With his wife helping on the voluminous research needed for costumes and backgrounds, Painter Rowe worked steadily on his 32 illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words...