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Word: performs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...songs (e.g., I've Got the World on a String, It's Been a Long, Long Time, Taking a Chance on Love), enlist June Haver and Gloria De Haven, who perform proficiently as a sister team, and radio's Tenor-Comic Dennis Day, whose shrewd timing as an arrested adolescent makes him the movie's most valuable player. In the role of Day's publishing partner, William Lundigan labors unrewardingly with most of the plot chores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...prove that the show could have gone on without these tools of the trade, Henderson disclosed that the band will perform a "musical drill at half-time tomorrow with no instruments whatsoever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quick Repair Job Saves Band's Trip | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...Half the singers needed have already been recruited," Miss Menzel said, "but places are still open for girls with good voices who can sight read. If enough people are interested we will have two choirs." The group will sing at chapel once a week, and will usually perform unaccompanied medieval motets and other early church music. If good enough, it will perform without leader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Choir | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...Friday night at Princeton, music will take the limelight. The annual Harvard-Princeton Glee Club Concert will be held in Alexander Hall, and the Operotta Guild will perform Victor Herbert's "Sweethearts" in McCarter Theatre, just off University Place. A lecture on jazz by Barry Ulanov, editor of Metronome, will take place in Clio Hall. The talk will be supplemented by readings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Will Go to Princeton; Clubs to Have Open House | 11/9/1950 | See Source »

...four players perform bravely, despite a script which is about as suspenseful as "Little Red Riding Hood." The Victorian setting provides the necessaries for melodrama: a heavily-draped living room, flickering candles, and a swinging chandelier. There are other timeless devices, such as nighttime storm and strange offstage noises which supplement the generally trite plot. Bail Langton's direction would be better appreciated if the play were a strong one. It is correctly slow-paced and would emphasize the tension that must be written in as really good melodrama...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

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