Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luxe London hotels offered Christmas goose and turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children...
Friends of the Benny-Allen feud will undoubtedly relish the opportunity of watching as well as hearing the pair's celebrated ruction". Others must be satisfied with occasional appearances by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), who plays Benny's insolent valet, and the Merry Macs, a quartet of swingsters. As an added attraction, Miss Martin revives Cole Porter's My Heart Belongs to Daddy...
...Bach Chorales sung in German by the Trapp Family Choir, also on Victor Records. The Trapps' unaffected singing of this delightful music is a treat for jaded ears. The singing has that perfect fusion and sympathy of all voices one finds among the members of a fine string-quartet, and you will not tire of the chamber flavor as you might the brilliance of a larger chorus. Also in the line of vocal music are the ancient French carols sung on a single Columbia Record by the Strasbourg Cathedral Choir, music more of the folk quality than the Bach chorales...
...Patterson got a second and third in the dive behind Rusty Greenhood, (McCutcheon won on a recount Sunday), and the stage was set for the best race of the night. Frannie Powers and Lonnie Stowell finished one-two in a 54.6 century ahead of Scott and Cutler. The Alumni quartet of Barker, Fallon, Scott, and Hutter took the relay in 1:38.2 by a body-length...
...Scott. The total points involved in these two races will probably be split quite evenly, but the Varsity has a destined advantage in the final relay. There will not be a 440, so Bus Curwon could team up with Powers, Stowell, and a fourth man to form a relay quartet which the Alumni would have a hard time equaling...