Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since her last picture, The Two-Faced Woman (1941), Garbo has kept busy ignoring rumors. In Washington last week, she was back on the screen-thanks to the Thomas Committee's anti-Communist inquiry. At the hearings M-G-M had been criticized for making Song of Russia (1944), a wartime boost for America's Red ally. MGM's comeback was a reissue of Garbo in Ninotchka (1939), a picture that kids the pants off Bolshevik commissars. As soon as prints are ready, Ninotchka will be re-released in most of the nation's larger cities...
...songsters couldn't stock up on malt beverages, at least they could have their fill of ballads, some classical, some not. At first "we used a Yale song book, which, of course, started us off on the wrong foot...
Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
Besides Harrison, jovial team manager who also serves as quarterback on the Jayvees, the rooters heard House master Mason Hammond '25, and responded in song with "Kirklandia" and "10,000 Men of Kirkland...
Except for one poem, the verse is neither excellent nor bad, though below that of recent issues. The exception, "Song of a Young Girl," by Alan H. Friedman, is a quite detestable piece of banality. between lines like "I want to die" and "Mother will want carrots" repeated each three or four times with slight variations, comes "slashed wrists under the bedcovers." This bit of unexplained neuroticism is not worthy of the generally mature Advocate, and can hardly be considered seriously as a poem...