Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then she may sit down with a blues-loving customer and talk; her stories pack almost as much wallop as her songs. When she was six or seven in New Orleans, Lizzie recalls, she started to sing with the band jointly run by Kid Ory and King Oliver - songs with words like Don't do that dance, I tell you, Sadie That's no dance for a lady...
...Blessed Lady that if God made me better, I'd never get on a stage again. I got better all right. And one night, a boy friend come around and took me to a club in Bucktown. When we got there, he told the bandleader, ooooh, could I sing. Well, it wasn't any stage, so I got up and sang Dardanella, and they paid me $25 a week." For years after that, in New York and Chicago, Lizzie was something of a favorite. Those were heady days, with the big gamblers at the ringside. ("I remember Little...
...Glee Club has apparently done its work too well. By sponsoring the freshman group, it obtained a reservoir of trained voices which it can never possibly-use. It also interested a great many students in choral work who now have no chance to continue singing. The three regular upperclass singing groups--the Dunster Dunces, the Krokodiloes, and the Bach Society Chorus-- are entirely different from the Glee Club. They are much smaller. Moreover, the special choruses which sing in operetta performances throughout the year often consist largely of regular Glee Club members...
Equally taxing were the opera's numerous scenic effects. Examples: a skeleton hanging on a wall that suddenly begins to sing and flail its arms; a scene where Mephistopheles throws a small boy on a table, carves him up and swallows him (in the Venice production, the boy actually disappeared in a flash of light as the knife descended...
...African Lion (Disney; Buena Vista), the third of Walt Disney's full-length True-Life Adventures, does not sing a song of biology as stirringly as The Living Desert, but it is still one of the best movies ever made about Africa. With able use of the telephoto lens, along with plenty of patient scrounging around in the underbrush, Cameraman Alfred Milotte and his wife Elma have managed to sit the moviegoer a little nearer front and center than he has ever sat before at the greatest wild animal show on earth. The best bits...