Word: ocarina
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...heartburn. Readers-as distinct from listeners-now have an opportunity to judge the accuracy of Critic Lardner's aim. In a new book out this week, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter (selected by Fred Lounsberry-Random House; $4.50) were clamped between hard covers without so much as an ocarina accompaniment. It is a rare tribute to a lyricist, but it is also a bit of a dirty trick...
...show itself tags and eventually begins to toil after Merman, it never trips her up. Irving Berlin's score is pleasing and varied, offering now the pretty Old World tinkle of The Ocarina, now a pre-election selection called They Like...
...voters. With the help of a "strong man" city charter pushed through by his supporters, Orville chopped the once-dominant city council down to size, hired & fired department heads at will (Dr. Marvin Buell, city health officer, attained fleeting fame by rendering a difficult triple-tongued selection on the ocarina while the mayor formally fired...
...matter how much he wriggled, the Internal Revenue Bureau would grab his wrist, yank him off balance, hiss for quiet, and take his jelly beans away from him. If he tried to hide them, he ran a good chance of having his marbles, jackknife, ocarina and super-magnifying atom ring confiscated, and his pants warmed with a shingle...
...Jack Kapp personally supervised the last output (with orchestra) of his longtime meal ticket, Bing Crosby. In Chicago, the virtues of soup, soda, beer and cheese were hymned by singers and small bands right up to midnight. From now on, singing commercials could be made with voice and ocarina or harmonica accompaniment, but not with union musicians...