Word: seales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last opera has found a new golden voice,"' reads the Billboard ad for a new RCA Victor Red Seal record this week. The eminent critical authority behind the statement was Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, but serious opera fans would do well to read the small type on the label. Traubel's plug was for her new duet partner, Jimmy Durante, a man whose voice has all the golden quality of metallurgical coke...
...Durante specials, A Real Piano Player and The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart. The new record, now on its way to distributors, consists of the same songs done as duets. It is on Victor's classical label because Traubel's exclusive Red Seal contract prevents her from recording for any less elevated series. Says Traubel: "It's a pleasure to record with a great artiste whose voice sounds the same with bad needles...
...Bostonian non-health and into condition, panting Lowels trip over puffing Sedgwicks on their morning run around Boston Common. The latter situations are absurd, unlike the "Draft Chart," they are not absurd extensions of existing situations, but attempts at created, impossible absurdity, like Thurber's seal-in-the-bedroom. Such attempts constitute excellent humor when they succeed. These...
...Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...want to seal the enemy's eyes and ears as completely as possible," Mao Tse-tung once wrote about the Japanese, whom, he now says, the Americans have replaced. "We want to render them blind and deaf; we want to take the heart out of their officers; we want to throw them into utter confusion, driving them insane...