Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient is given only a local anesthetic at the temples-the brain itself is insensitive-and the doctors encourage him to talk, sing or recite poems and prayers while the operation is in progress. As his lobes are sliced, he becomes drowsier, more confused and incoherent. When his replies to questions show that his mind is thoroughly disoriented, the doctors know they have cut deep enough into his brain. (Dr. Freeman once casually asked a patient, "What's going through your mind now?" Said the patient: "A knife...
...signed a contract with Decca largely on the strength of her two best-selling Gems of Jazz reissues, made years before for English Parlophone. She'd sung four perennial jazz numbers: "Willow Tree," "Honey-suckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Downhearted Blues." Only Decca now wanted her to sing the latest. Mildred as usual wanted to make her own choices. In an up-and-coming singer it might be foolishness, but in an artist who has been on top for over ten years, who has developed her own following, it is perfectly justifiable. The success of her Vocalions...
Judy Splinters' substitute for an Edgar Bergen is a 16-year-old San Francisco girl, Shirley Faye Dinsdale, who, says the real Bergen, is "the best natural ventriloquist I ever saw." What impresses ventriloquists most is an unusual accomplishment-Shirley Dinsdale can actually make her puppet sing, in a clear, sweet soprano...
...round in the three-year-old fencing match between the D.A.R. and colored Contralto Marian Anderson, the D.A.R.ters who had finally asked her to sing in Washington's Constitution Hall got an acceptance with provisos: that there be no audience segregation, that she be allowed to sing there again sometime. So the D.A.R.ters withdrew the invitation. Then Marian Anderson accepted anyway. But Sol Hurok, her publicity-wise manager, would not let the quarrel lapse. Said he: "Since the executive committee has not referred in its letter to the matter of segregation . . . Miss Anderson understands that this is no barrier...
Along the road, the principals sing and dance Oh, You Beautiful Doll, For Me And My Gal, Till We Meet Again, Ballin' the Jack, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm. The contagious little tune Ballin' the Jack, as delivered by Miss Garland and Mr. Kelly (helped by Miss Garland's racehorse legs and by a superbly realistic vaudeville audience), is worth the price of admission...