Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could count on the electoral support of no more than a fourth of the villages. The rest leaned for Communism, or at least leaned against the unknown, unproved regime in Saigon. But by last week, the song of surrender was fainter and there were many who had ceased to sing it. A fresh survey showed that Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's nationalists are picking up, that they now stand about 50-50 with the Communists in the minds of the people of South Viet Nam. They are still gaining...
...five Wesendonck Songs, with eloquence and sensuousness in the Love Death from Tristan. There was ringing power (even on her high A's and B-flats) in Brunnhilde's final scene from Gotter-ddmmerung. Before the concert Soprano Flagstad said she wondered whether she could still sing. Her listeners, some with tears in their eyes, rose to their feet and cheered, because she still...
Silk Stockings (original Broadway cast; Victor LP). The new Cole Porter musical (TIME, March 7). Its sophisticated rhymes bring Ninotchka's old joshing about Bolshevism up to date, and a couple of songs (All of You, Without Love) are pleasant enough. Don Ameche sings passably, if emphatically. Hildegarde Neff and Gretchen Wyler sing emphatically...
Fifty members of the Glee Club will make an "ecclesiastical tour." On the tour, they will sing in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral of St., John the Divine in New York City, and they will also perform in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities...
Funnyman Jack Paar appraised Songstress Betty Clooney (sister of Rosemary) with a businesslike eye last week and regretfully decided to drop her from his CBS-TV Morning Show. In her place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full...