Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorm students and commuters will tune up at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 8 for Radcliffe's annual song contest, Betty Bagby '52, contest chairman, announced last night...
When his apparatus is working right, Dr. Kreutzer claims that fish swim to their deaths as if bewitched. The Herr Doktor turns on the current; the fish point dutifully toward the electrode. When he makes the current sing its pied-piper song, the fish wiggle and waggle in time with the subtle pulses. Glassy-eyed and helpless, they swim toward the electrode which leads to the frying...
Into the packed plaza three Navajos rode, chanting the ancient Riding Song of the tribe. Behind them rolled a sleek black limousine bearing Archbishop Byrne of Santa Fe and Bishop Espelage of Gallup. Bishop Espelage celebrated Mass, the Navajo children's choir singing the responses. Then the Indians hunched forward expectantly. Old Father Berard was going to speak...
Also present for their first movie appearance: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a funny song & gag team from radio and the nightclubs...
...Song of Surrender (Paramount) describes the adventures of a backwoods Cinderella (Wanda Hendrix) living in turn-of-the-century New England with a stern husband (Claude Rains) old enough to be her father. The pumpkin which gets her away from it all is a primitive talking-machine and a handful of Caruso recordings which she keeps hidden in a hillside cave for solitary recitals. Her prince charming is a rich city slicker (Macdonald Carey) who whisks her off to a nearby metropolis for an innocent, giddy evening of champagne and waltzes...