Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharp-eyed Reader Malone, a salute for seeing what TIME's picture editor (and apparently TIME's readers generally) failed to notice: Rachele's Singer has no spool on the spool...
Records & Races. No pure Celt, Christy Lynch was born at Rathkeale on the banks of the Deel, the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. He got his start as a singer in 1942 when he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater; the O'Maras, a wealthy meat-packing family in the audience, arranged for him to study in Dublin under McCormack's old teacher...
...month tryout as a Warner assistant producer, Skolsky was asked if he had any picture ideas. "Yes," said Skolsky, "the life of Al Jolson." Jack Warner, not believing his ears, cried, "The life of Al Jolson? We've done that." (Warner's 1927 The Jazz Singer, starring Jolson in the first talkie, was a thinly disguised Jolson biography.) "Nobody," Warner decided, "wants to see or hear Jolson any more...
...High point of the congress: when U.S. Negro singer (and leftist) Paul Robeson finished singing Song of the Fatherland, Soviet General Kozlov was so moved that he rushed to the rostrum and planted a kiss on Robeson's cheek...
Died. Alexander Carr, 68, stage and film actor, onetime Louisville street singer who won fame & a fleeting fortune as the irascible Mawruss Perlmutter in stage versions of Montague Glass's adventures of Partners Potash & Perlmutter; in Hollywood...