Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
...This was Evan Llewelyn Evans, advertising and radio genius, scourge of account executives. . . The man who had built and broken more stars than anyone else in radio . . . who had fired a world famous Metropolitan Opera soprano because she wouldn't sing Some of These Days. . . . Mr. Evans raised his straw-covered head once more, hawked and spit on the mahogany board table. . . . It was always there, the feeling of fear. It hung in the air in the office of Evan Llewelyn Evans. . . . The Fear...
...theater with a toned-down band that went easier on the drums and the brass. Crosby late of the U.S. Marines, learned his lesson when leading a service band on Bougainville. He expected the Marines to demand music with hair on its chest. Says he: "They wanted me to sing White Christmas...
...couldn't take the altitude, so she abruptly canceled two dates with the National Opera in mile-and-a-half-high Mexico City. Rumored differences with a baritone, said the Opera management, had nothing to do with it. Pons got her wind back, showed up in time to sing Lucia in the season's very last performance...
...continuity writer has an opportunity to express very clearly and forcefully the dogmatic ideas behind Catholic belief in the Divine Maternity or the Sacramental Presence of Christ. . . . We do not argue, but we sing a beautiful hymn which has come from the pen and from the heart of a composer whose life has been intimately touched by this great mystery...