Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There she remembers the huge Russian always willing to jump into a kazachok; the lovely, shy Florian doing her belly-dances; Henry, the manager, keeping the peace "by telling everyone in the room they were right"; or the little singer, Chiffon, crooning before an old piano "that drove the orchestra to desperation." And the beautiful-eyed Fernande, who "could make more noise by herself than a banquet...
...bright side of St. Louis Woman is its musicomedy side. The show's only real dance number, a spanking cakewalk contest, has style and dash. The show's only real comic, Nightclub Singer Pearl Bailey, has the lumbering slink and lusty humor to turn two sex-salted ditties, Legalize My Name and A Woman's Prerogative into near showstoppers. The show's boisterous finale, with a frenzied crowd perched on rooftops and stepladders for a sneak-view of Augie's big race, has freshness, bounce. Lemuel Ayers's sets and costumes have musicomedy splash...
Also elected as Crimson executives were Kenneth S. Lynn '45, of Massachusetts Hall and Shaker Heights, Ohio, as Assistant Editorial Chairman, Robert S. Leventhal '48, of Adams House and Newton, as Advertising Manager, and Monroe S. Singer '47, of Adams House and New York City, as Sports Editor...
...lyric soprano voice with a winsome personality, good looks, and real acting talent in an excellent performance as Martha. She is ably seconded by Robert Pitkin (of "my object all sublime" fame), Le Roi Operti, Betty Luster, and several others. But Robert Douglas is sadly inadequate as the opera singer who is Martha's first love; he is fat with disturbing regularity, and his vocal shortcomings are not overcome by other saving graces...
Even more shocking to the Bean-Rechettis is Tilli's next love, a U.S. singer who brags that he is virginal. Once that disorder is cleared up, Tilli marries him. She soon leaves him for dressmaking with Mother in Manhattan. Tilli (now divorced) is about to marry a dull but rich fiancé when the dipso-and-nymphomaniac wife of the artist whom Tilli really loves dies in the nick of time. So she marries the artist...