Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanya Holm's dances are smart, brisk, Broadwayish-no Art whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...
...Biggest Zaret & Singer success was their modernization of Harvard Professor George Martin Lane's The Lone Fish Ball (1855) into 1945's hit One Meat Ball...
...WNEW last week began broadcasting a series of six one-minute jingles about the United Nations. WNEW has also made transcriptions of the songs for the use of other stations in the U.S. and in other English-speaking countries. They were written by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer, authors of WNEW's Little Songs About Big Subjects.* Sample lyric...
Manhattan's critics had cleared their throats and sung an unaccustomed high C for Flagstad (see above). Next night, in a Carnegie Hall loaded with Met stars and singing teachers, they had to strain their voices again for a singer most of them had never seen, though they had heard her on records...
...unexpected ovation. It overwhelmed her so much she could hardly get through her first group of Handel and Vivaldi songs. "I can't sing when I am emotional," she said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could move her voice around as fast as a flute...