Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep the Home Fires Burning...
...long-winded explanation. He had tried to persuade the sponsor to let him supply the punch the Music Hall has lacked since Crosby left the show last year. He had been turned down cold. Al's version of it sounded like the lyric of an oldtime Jolson song...
Explaining the absence of the "Wintergreen" medley from last Saturday's program, one band member said that they were "afraid the students might get tired of the song...
Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...
...cocktail party: 30 overdressed men and women wiggle about inside an invisible (and nonexistent) wall in the center of the stage, waving long-stemmed glasses, nodding their heads furiously, and shouting in fearful chorus, "Yatata, yatata, boloney, mismosh, rubbish, yatata." The third impressionist scene is "Allegro" itself: the title song, a freudian ballet, and the gyrations of the projected backdrop displaying the tempo of modern life--allegro...