Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perfect Figaro. These vocal varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...
...annual club concert, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky led the orchestra through a typical free-treat program-a bit of Mozart, a bit of Berlioz. Then he shooed the orchestra off stage, began a short speech in Russian-coated English: "Our Boston Symphony discovered Dorothy Maynor. Today we discover another great singer-Carol Brice. I hope very soon this artist will also be as great as Dorothy Maynor...
...their 21-month-old son, Carol memorizes her songs by propping scores over the sink or the ironing board. Says she: "People tell me, 'Oh well, you're Negro so you're musical.' But I have to work just as hard as any white singer...
...Bellboy, and now Sailor, she seems reasonably content with her fate, her high place in fan-magazine popularity polls, her standing as a kind of female counterpart of Van Johnson, and her salary (about $750 a week). Her next picture: Two Sisters from Boston, as a sister to Singer Kathryn Grayson. Her modest ambition: to act like Margaret Sullavan...
Like everything else in Paris, the Club des Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...