Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rising young attorney, light-complexioned Charlie cut a social swath. He wangled invitations to Hollywood benefits, and ran up a $2,000 bill for rented evening clothes. When the photographers exploded their flash bulbs, Charlie would sidle alongside the celebrities. His picture appeared in the papers with Singer Lina Romay, Van Johnson and Victor Mature...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, 46, once named one of the twelve most beautiful women in the U.S., former actress and singer, who left the boards for the soapbox during the depression. Her last Broadway hit: Tonight or Never...
Nobody-least of all her teachers-could understand how that Traubel girl managed to get any education at all. Even the teachers assumed that Helen would be a singer; sometimes they'd ask for a song. Helen would sing Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland; if any boy groaned, "I'd bounce him on the head as I went by." When she got too far behind in her studies Father Otto hired a tutor, told her to "kindly stuff this little goose." Says Helen Traubel today: "I may be a numskull scholastically, but what I remember of my family...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts, despite its plethora of Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Boston's favorite John Singer Sargent, is second only to the Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
...Jolson Story. People who never heard-or never cared for-the Jazz Singer himself love this big, noisy, colorful entertainment (TIME...