Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clifford Odets knows where he is going -to NBC as a television writer. He was the dramatic laureate of the 1930s, when his Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing gave promise of a bright new American theater of protest. For 27 years, he has been a richly rewarded scriptwriter and adapter in Hollywood, and during the same period he has turned out several relatively bland plays-including Golden Boy-for Broadway...
...looked every bit as lovely as Garbo. But she did more than look good: she brought onto the stage with her an air of graceful authority and confidence that almost managed to give the unhappy crew around her guts enough to say their corny lines and sing their tuneless songs. Unfortunately, as Ninotchka she is the victim of Porter's wretched book; most of the charming little conte the old movie told has been cut away, including the cultivated and charming character of her paramour (played, in the film, by Melvyn Douglas); poor Ninotchka, it appears, has been kept...
...that she has the blood of both the Cherokee and Seminole nations in her veins and that her parents have told her that Uggams is an Indian word meaning "sweet one." With her parents, she now lives in a glossy new apartment building near Lincoln Center. Buick, sponsor of Sing Along, handed her a Wildcat last year and will soon come through with another 4,000 Ibs. of rolling gratitude. She also gets $2,500 a week and her guest-appearance fee is $10,000. Her allowance is $20 a week. She is as frugal as Scrooge's grand...
...star soloist on Miller's sing-along program, she has proved herself the best girl singer since Rosemary Clooney. Her talent is evidence that not all teen-age singers are indiscriminately scraped up off the sidewalks and shoved into echo chambers. She has the range of mood and inflection to do everything from Clang Clang Clang Went the Trolley to religious songs at Christmastime...
...either sing or play for the sheer pleasure of it, or he can concentrate on exploring and developing his responsiveness in musical expression. In addition, he may gain valuable experience in preparation for a profession in music, learning, for example, that violins gradually get sharp as a concert progresses, while the brasses gradually become flat, and that the players must compensate for this...