Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valley Serenade" does have all that and more to boot. Sonja Henie, in addition to her solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave...
...First to solo (in the creditable time of six hours' dual instruction) was Captain Davis. A new class of eleven is already at the field doing its preliminary soldiering, and other classes will follow every five weeks...
American Works for Solo Wind Instruments and String Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson, with Flutist Joseph Mariano, Oboist Robert Sprenkle, Bassoonist Vincent Pezzi, Clarinetist Rufus Arey; Victor; four sides). These works, by three teachers and a recent graduate of the nourishing Eastman School of Music, are easy to hear. Wayne Barlow's oboe rhapsody, The Winter's Past, says its piece most persuasively. Others: Serenade (clarinet) by Homer Keller; American Dance (bassoon) by Burrill Phillips; Soliloquy (flute) by Bernard Rogers...
...Spiked the Guns of General Franco's Firing Squad," Miss Rogers commented: "I knew the lid was going to blow off this thing some day. . . . I'm the best damned woman violinist in show business, and I don't need Dahl to sell a violin solo...
...name as a famed footballer, gave him the Inquiring Fotographer assignment. The column was a transplanted Chicago Tribune feature, but it had always been assigned more or less at random to a staff writer accompanied by a cameraman, and Jimmy was the first ever to make it a solo career. He now owns three Greenwich Village apartment houses. Total income with News salary: around $12,000 annually...