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Last week this old Tennessee ballad, Cindy, was worn thin on the turntables of 1,000 radio disc jockeys. Listeners wrote new Cindy lyrics and sent them to the radio stations. First prize in the contest was a trip to Manhattan to meet Songbird Jo Stafford...
...Lutheran Church. Just as it ended Doc got an emergency call; Earl Ames over in Ogema asked him to come right away. Everybody in town went to the town hall for the evening program, anyhow. The school principal made a talk. Mrs. Tyler of Tomasawaka was introduced as the "Songbird of the North" and sang If I Had My Way. The crowd sang too. They were still there at 11 o'clock when Doc got back to report: "The mother nearly died, the baby nearly died, I nearly died, but we all lived. The baby was blue...
Deanna Durbin, 22-year-old baby-faced cinema songbird, told the waiting world that she was going to have a baby next March...
...according Mildred the kudos of "the greatest popular songbird in the U.S.," thanks. For describing her voice as "small," her large but not unattractive figure as shapeless, for sending eight, great, productive Bailey years into the limbo of obscurity, shame...
...Victor Herbert's sure-fire romantic operetta, Naughty Marietta. I Married An Angel, which is not equipped with the kind of songs (Spring Is Here, I Married An Angel) they can sing, is their eighth picture together. It may well be their last-unless M.G.M. renews green-eyed Songbird MacDonald's golden contract...