Word: sirene
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...girl really was young and beautiful (played by Italy's Sophia Loren, with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French into minstrel-show English. With all these modern wonders, the Metropolitan Opera dared to compete, by staging a revival of Umberto Giordano's opera...
...would listen, the Russians have kept up another siren song: there could be lots of trade if only the Americans did not insist on an embargo. Britons, Germans, Japanese, French and Danes listened wistfully...
Divorced. By Marilyn Monroe, 28, No. 1 U.S. movie siren: Joseph Paul DiMaggio, 40, onetime Yankee slugger; after nine months of marriage; in Hollywood. In an underplayed 15-minute courtroom scene, black-suited Cinemactress Monroe stepped forward on cue from famed Lawyer Jerry Giesler, tearfully announced that instead of the "love, warmth and affection" she had expected from Joe, she had found only "coolness and indifference...
...Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used to be to look like Tom Mix. The Good Families of Walnut Creek tolerate these goings-on as long as Jack remembers that there are two kinds of folks: those who make the laws and those who obey them. Then...