Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selections by four swing bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...
Miss Skyman, accompanied by George Faulkner, will sing arias by Handel, Mozart, Cul, and Hemberg...
Spark plug of the Group Theatre in recent seasons, with his outspoken Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, Leftist Playwright Odets took to Hollywood last year, turned out melodrama that veered neither left nor right. That Hollywood has improved the Odets technique is apparent in the swift mounting of scenes, the extravagance of dramatic energy in Golden Boy. That his experience in the cinema has not lessened his power as a playwright of the masses is equally apparent. The Italian family of the play might have been sketched from behind the portieres of its own flat...
Last week, however, the U. S. went a step farther than Britain. Not merely to counteract propaganda which leads to hatred and misunderstanding, but actively to promote international friendship, the U. S. Government went on the air to sing not its own praises but those of its neighbors. Over 65 Columbia Broadcasting System stations, the most elaborate educational radio program ever attempted by the Government began ''Brave new world! The story of Latin America. . . . Twenty nations with a history and culture to be admired and a democratic ideal we share...
First test of U. S. response to Author Lehmann's literary career came last week when she appeared as speaker before the overflow audience which opened Manhattan's National Book Fair at Rockefeller Center. The audience begged Author Lehmann to sing...