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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert John Kirby, 54, warden of Sing Sing, like his predecessor, Lewis E. Lawes, an opponent of capital punishment; of pneumonia; in Ossining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...eyes and brown hair, are 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weigh 165 Ibs. and wear glasses. The chances are 100 to i against your wearing a beard, 10 to 1 against your having a mustache. Instead you shave clean every day, and you are more likely to swear than sing while you are doing it. You don't admit to a bay window-and you have no use for setting up exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...chorus, not greatly reduced in size, but with a number of its members in uniform, will follow its Sanders Theatre concert with another at Gardner Museum, Boston, on February 6. On February 12 it will sing at Town Hall, New York, with the Sarah Lawrence College Chorus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB RECITAL SCHEDULED JAN. 27 | 1/14/1944 | See Source »

When people come out of a theatre humming the songs of a show, it's a sure sing that they appreciated the music at least. But when people continue to do that and go back to see the show a second and third time, it's a sure sign they like not only the music, but also the show itself. And when people have been going to see the show ever since 1924, it's a sure sing that with a good cast the show deserves four stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

...Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist (who once fought for Loyalist Spain) turns out to have quite a way with the natives. El Khobar is not so black-hearted as black-faced and vocal. He and his tribesmen sing practically everything except Been Wukkin' on de Railroad. In the long run El Khobar is exonerated, the pianist gets the girl. The one bit which heartily commends The Desert Song to a world at war is a sizzling dancer (see cut, p. 94), by name Sylvia Operte who really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1944 | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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