Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singer Marjorie Lawrence got the Legion's diamond cross, in Paris...
Wrote opinionated old Portraitist Augustus John: "To have him portrayed permanently on his legs or somebody else's (even without walking stick!) would be an intolerable solecism, dishonoring to a great and unvanquished spirit, and a lasting monument to British ineptitude only." Opera Singer Marjorie Lawrence, like Roosevelt a polio victim, asked "Why not present...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...
...considered beyond the pale. The 1947 edition, out last week, showed that the secret board of editors* was more vigilant than ever. In stayed 24 Roosevelts, 20 Pells, 8 Vanderbilts, 4 Astors, 3 Stuyvesants, 7 de Peysters, 14 Havemeyers. Out went: ¶Hyatt Von Dehn, longtime Registerite. He married Singer Ginny Simms in 1945, was listed with her in the 1946 edition. Ginny was found wanting. ¶Mrs. Faith Corrigan Fair McNulty. She married Writer John McNulty in 1945, and they were listed in the 1946 edition. McNulty spent part of the year working on a book about...
Richard Strauss: Songs (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky, pianist; Columbia, 4 sides). The great lieder singer's first album of Strauss songs. Included are the haunting Allerseelen and the popular Morgen. Performance: excellent...