Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cynthia Sweeney '50 will sing the soprano solo in the Harvard Glee Club Radcliffe Choral Society joint presentation of Handel's "Messiah' 'in Sanders Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday...
...Cliffe girls were even more amazed. They found linen tablecloths and napkins, flowers on the table, and PLATES. At Barnard, the shock was too great; they began to sing Christmas Carlos after dinner...
...dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing. Stock-exchange members stopped their trading to sing God Save the King', the official 41-gun salute decreed for the birth of a royal heir boomed forth from the Tower of London and Hyde Park. Even in Norfolk, Va., Britain's battleship, Duke of York, fired an extra 21-gun salute in honor of Britain...
...very flossy bird, a great musical Tom stuffed with stars. The producers have given it everything a picture of this sort normally requires for success. Betty Grable is there to show off her pretty ankles and sing some nice tunes. Dan Dailey figures to de-emphasize Miss Grable's mediocre dancing with his own slick routines. The supporting cast of June Havoc, Jack Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits...
...play like "Hamlet" falls naturally into a movie, even after it has been dismembered and reassembled differently, "The Mikado" on celluloid somehow just doesn't seem right. Perhaps this is because musical plays are basically improbable; choruses drift on and off stage for no apparent reason, and players sing lines which would be better spoken. But on the stage no one notices these irregularities, and certainly no one cares...