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...somebody else. She would make it clear that my role was to make her into a tragic muse." She had no intention of becoming a singer either, but one day she heard about a remunerative amateur contest at a little Village binlet called The Lion. Learning A Sleepin' Bee, she sang it and resoundingly defeated a light-opera singer, another pop singer and a comedian. Almost at once she had a booking at the Bon Soir, the Copacabana of West Eighth Street. Barbra by then had developed an enduring fondness for other people's castaway clothes, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Girl | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Many times when you're sleepin' and snorin' I'm restless," confided Preacher Thompson. "I can't sleep. I'm thinkin' about conditions of this here wicked world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Midget Revivalist | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...discussed many things; among them, the Negro problem. She is a Southerner, and fond of her "mammy." She says that she wants the Negroes to have everything she has-but she draws the line at "eatin' and sleepin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maria Daviess | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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