Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the bait, Columbia rechristened the picture, signed contracts with the entertainers Eddy Farley and Mike Riley, who were then generally supposed to be the song's composers,* flew them and four members of their troupe to Hollywood, built the picture to a climax in which they sing their song. The result was hustled into U. S. cinemansions last week...
Germany and Austria have pronounced Giannini a great dramatic artist. Toscanini chose her to sing in Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival last summer (TIME, Sept. 2), chose her again for his General Motors broadcast and for his forthcoming performance of the Verdi Requiem. But Father Giannini waited until last week to form his own opinion, then said: "I always think my Dusolina, she has a very nice voice. Now I believe she acts very good...
Shirley is here and there is nothing to do about it but we can complain about the treatment given to the rest of the cast. John Boles can sing but we were offered the pipings of the cute one instead and even the worst of the history debunkers would shudder at the insipid portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. It is about time that petty actors stopped trying to take the part of the world's greatest...
Marian Anderson to Sing...
...Norwegian who last winter won an overnight success as Isolde, went on to prove herself as Brünnhilde, the Ring's long-suffering heroine (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante}. This year Soprano Flagstad is again the Metropolitan's prime drawing-card. As Brunnhilde, she will sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket was sold on her account. But wholehearted Wagnerians realized that Flagstad was only one part in the cycle, no more important than Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior who must battle and die as Siegmund in Walkure, become the swaggering, youth ful hero...