Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another thing, when Lt. Joseph Cable sings "Younger Than Springtime" to the native girl Liat, the show becomes momentarily ordinary. The song is pretty enough--Bing Crosby and others will probably let us hear a great deal of it during the next few months--but it seems to exist chiefly because of its prettiness. The romance between Cable and Liat, which is handled quite remarkably up to the moment Cable begins to sing, loses a lot of its intensity by being interrupted for such a number. Perhaps the fault is more the singer's than the song's; William Tabbert...
...excuse an expression I use, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful guy." These emphatically joyful words are from one of Mary Martin's songs in "South Pacific"; to see and hear her sing them is to see and hear at her very best one of the few genuine stars on the American musical stage today. Miss Martin's contribution to the show is prodigious, and I shall return to her presently. At the moment, I hasten to announce that anybody who possesses seats...
...expensive section of the Bellboy dining hall will take on all the glitter of the diamond horseshoe for the performance of Handel's "Acis and Galatea." James Perrin '50 and Marguerite Willauer of the New England Conservatory of Music will sing the title roles of John Gay's libretto. Paul Tibbets '45, who has been something of a fixture in musical circles here since the pre-war era himself, will be Polyphemus while June Donald of the Longy School will sing Dalmon...
...first lap of her second U.S. tour (she sang Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter last season), Kathleen finds she has little time now for anything but singing. After her U.S. tour there are two other big engagements on her schedule: 1) Amsterdam, where she will sing Orfeo again with San Francisco's Pierre Monteux conducting, 2) the Edinburgh Festival, where her old coach, Bruno Walter, has promised to be at the piano to accompany her recital...
...racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...