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...your antiquated boots, hypothecate your jewelry, come on the canal, work your passage, walk, take up a collection to pay expenses, raise money on a mortgage, sell 'Tom' into perpetual slavery, stop smoking for a year, give up tea, coffee and sugar, dispense with bread, meat, garden sass and such like luxuries-and then come and hear Jenny Lind." She sang Mozart, Weber, and Meyer beer, offset by such additional items as Comin' Through the Rye and The Last Rose of Summer. Presenting a little-known song from an opera called Clari, she immortalized Home, Sweet Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Swede | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...week she was on the air seven times with breathless reports on everything from a welfare hassle in Newburgh. N.Y., to the problems of the Post Office. Though lacking polish and a real reporter's knack for the trenchant question, she packs plenty of punch: a mixture of sass, brass and self-confidence wrapped in a package guaranteed to lure males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beaver | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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