Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balinese Room singer, a Shmoo, and a statue unveiling were banned from the Union by Yard cops last night on the orders of Union Secretary Frank W. Reeb...
...Hedy Lamarr ("What I'd call a heavy leg ... good construction") ; 2) Alexis Smith ("willowy"); 3) Ray Bolger ("A good dancing leg ... Legs don't have to be a woman's to be beautiful"); 4) Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson; 5) and 6) Citation; 7) Jane Russell, whose pret ty legs have been "overshadowed"; 8) a Chippendale chair...
...Nazis for good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome, fearless U.S. intelligence officer (Dick Powell) whose spy contact in Saïgon is a sultry nightclub singer (Marta Toren). The comic strips could take it from there...
When the plot of A Song* is serving only as a link between jam sessions, it is useful and quietly inoffensive. When it brims over into outlandish muggajuggery about gangsters, a torch singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crew of antiquated musicologists, the yarn gets in the way of the hot licks. The plottiness dooms Kaye to the role of master of ceremonies. He handles his interludes adroitly, but some are overlong. And a hep cat can't wait...
...only one who wasn't fretting last week was modest Dorothy Dobson. She had always dreamed of being a famous singer-and this was fame of a sort. She only wished her three notes had been better. "They were," said she, "the tiniest bit sharp...