Word: schmalzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
Hard Work and Schmalz. Editor Christiansen's success is due partly to hard work, partly to his unchanging conviction that folks like to read about events which burst from the emotions of men & women, partly to "The Beaver's" penchant for young hustlers in top jobs...
...audience starry-eyed with memories of the 1907 days when Widows Ethel Jackson (see cut) and Lina Abar-banell, in hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its willowy waltzes with a hand dipped in authentic Viennese schmalz, was the oldest Merry Widower of them all, bald, paunchy Robert Stolz, who raised a baton on the first Vienna production...
...time he left Europe, in 1919, to spend his declining years at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
...Cowboy and the Ladies. Both the sentimentality and the rhetoric of Meet John Doe profit greatly by its star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears...