Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his father retired four years ago, Powell took over-against the protest of oldsters who had been shocked by his marriage to a radio and nightclub singer, considered him a little too fancy and convivial for a preacher. His sermons dealt with everyday Harlem problems like high rents, jobs, the numbers racket. Afterward he stood in front of his pulpit, kissing the women of his congregation...
...grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...
...audience's lap), were the burnt cork and the white-rimmed goggles. But the eyes still popped, the voice still beckoned, the legs still scissored as though in time with an incredibly fast march. More of an imp than a comic, more of a song salesman than a singer, more of a ground-coverer than a hoofer, Eddie Cantor still rated the big time for his invaluable gift of always seeming like a nice little guy instead of an actor...
Deanna Durbin came out of two months of obscurity to announce that she was going to England with Husband Vaughn Paul to entertain troops and war workers. The 20-year-old singer, who has been idle ever since Universal suspended her in October, said Viscount Halifax had invited...
...oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs the gamut of shoddy ruses, noble renunciations, comic duels, gloomy drunks, motherly madams, then smugly pats itself on the back for its unhappy ending...