Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disliking nothing more than musical sluggishness, he keeps the Harvard and Radcliffe singers doting by his sustained vitality rather than by the everpresent Koussie Woody interludes. His worst comment is, "You haven't got the guts to sing," but it is followed by an expansive smile, and suddenly the volume swells miraculously. Glee Club members recall a rehearsal of "Casey Jones," in which the coaching was so graphic that a Radcliffe girl who had wandered in decided to leave. Since then rehearsals have been closed to the fairer...
...five other Houses entered the field, and Sam drew up plans for the first full season of inter-House athletics, at the same time being appointed intramural director, a post which he still holds. "I guess I'm the first, last, and only," he says with a reminiscent smile in alluding to this position...
...smile was exactly the same, and the straw hat seemed to be. After 13 years, Parisian Maurice Chevalier was back in Manhattan last week in a one-man show. He can still make up in personality for what he lacks in voice, but a whole evening of Chevalier is a bit too much. He has a few good new turns, though, and they are given the works. The best of the old ones - Louise and Valentine - need only to be sung...
...guffaw or two from all but the most sedate, the humor all too frequently descends to either the crudest of slapstick or aged witticisms of the "who was that lady I saw you with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They insist, however, upon ending it up with the customary...
...composing at his ocean-front home in Massachusetts, "until the publishers start turning me down." In retirement, he may also have enough leisure to correct the oft-published story that he is the uncle of British-born Jazz Bandman Ray Noble. Says Dr. Noble with a smile: "We're no relation at all. I can't imagine why he should want to claim...