Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burl Ives (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual) and Sir Lancelot, West Indian calypso singer, in a program of folk music...
...number of odd noises passed for entertainment. In Chicago, the Warblers-a troupe of 15 canaries, including a bass singer-were practicing trills and twitters in anticipation of a new Mutual show which will celebrate the canaries' 20th consecutive year on the air. In Portland, Ore., 250 sticky youngsters filled the air with gooey snaps and pops-and splattered the microphone-at the first broadcast of a bubble-gum contest...
...crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses about the prisoners-seems like stale...
...opera singer must learn to act" is one of the guiding principles propounded to students in the practice sheds and barns at Tanglewood. In fact, singing technique is taught here only as an incidental factor to staging...
...Works. "For several months," Hedda casually announced urbi et orbi one day last spring, "I have been plugging a young singer named Doris Day, who, I believed, had fine talent. . . . Mike Curtiz tested her for the lead in Romance in High C. She'd never been before a camera previously, but Mike told me her test was sensational. Even so, the studio wanted a star name-Mary Martin, Lauren Bacall, or Ginny Simms-for the role, but Mike held out for Doris...