Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Benny Goodman's new band had worked its way through the first set, from Bugle Call Rag through Sing, Sing, Sing, everything in the Empire Room was just as Benny Goodman likes it. People seemed unaware that there was no more space on the dance floor: they just had to dance, and they...
...onslaught by the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Rudolf Bing, who refused to allow Tebaldi to do a 15-minute version of Traviata for fear that it might take the edge off her performance of the opera at the Met next season. He also objected to Coloratura Peters singing anything too "strenuous" when two days later she was to sing her first Lucia at the Met. Bing got his way and made Festival pay for it by charging a royalty fee of $5.000 for use of Met singers...
...switch on Of Thee I Sing (1931), in which John P. Wintergreen is elected President on an all-out love platform, and later saved from impeachment by the First Lady's announcement that she is going to have a baby. As Vice President Throttlebottom tells the Senators: "Gentlemen, this country has never yet impeached an expectant father...
...began spending less time with staid Bermudians, more with exciting Americans. By last December his wife had divorced him; he had been named corespondent in a divorce suit, and was dating Royce Wallace, caramel-skinned veteran of seven Broadway shows and Manhattan hotspots who had flown in to sing at the Grotto. On Christmas Eve he married Royce...
Lillian Roth (Susan Hay ward) as a stage child was hurried so hard by an ambitious mother (Jo Van Fleet) that she lost her real self on the road to fame. In her teens-already a name on Broadway and in pictures, where she introduced such songs as Sing, You Sinners and If I Could Be with You-Lillian tried at first to find herself in love. David died. One night she went looking for herself in a bottle. Next morning she woke up in a hotel room with a soldier. To make matters worse, they were married. They stayed...