Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dizzy foolishness of this sodapop operetta is made more foolish by its opulence. Every good thing about it is lavishly doubled or tripled. There are two prodigies and two frustrated opera-singer parents kicking them up to stardom, two comics (Jules Munshin and Keenan Wynn) and two imperturbable renegades from the fine arts (Ethel Barrymore and Jose Iturbi). Among the players, only Thomas Gomez (whose portrait of a tenor warming up his tonsils spoofs both tenor and script) seems to be having any fun in the machine comedy...
Best female singer: Billie Holiday...
Biggest surprise: Billy ("Mr. B.") Eckstine (TIME, June 20) was voted "greatest popular male singer of all time," just a iump ahead of Bing Crosby...
...time police reinforcements broke it up two hours later, traffic was snarled for miles in every direction. At least eight were taken to the hospital for treatment, one of them stabbed in the side, another suffering from a brain concussion. Singer...
...Juror No. 2 was Russell Janney, 64, Broadway producer, promoter and author of the bestselling The Miracle of the Bells. One of the steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...