Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...charming genius of Viennese folk-singer Martha Schlamme graced John Hancock Hall last Thursday evening. Miss Schlamme, whose repertoire includes songs in at least a dozen different languages, captivated her audience for two hours with her interpretations of many styles of song...
Miss Schlamme is blessed with a lovely lyric soprano voice and displays great sensitivity toward her material. Taking the audience into her confidence, she prefaced each song with a brief analysis of its contents, making it understandable regardless of its foreign words. But only to hear Miss Schlamme is to miss half the performance. Her capabilities as an actress showed time and time again through her animated expressions and gestures that turned each song into a vividly told story...
...mood of her songs varied greatly. Her deeply moving performance of the Irish "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye," the song from which we get the more familiar "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," left the audience breathless. In sharp contrast, her version of "There's a Hole in the Bucket" drew loud laughs...
...Inside Song. In clearly choosing sides in Cuba's conflict. Herb Matthews, 59, was following a well-established pattern in his long, award-studded career. In 1929 he went to the Far East, where tension was already rising, came away feeling more sympathy toward the Japanese than the Chinese ("What I responded to, above all, was the charm and hospitality of the Japanese"). When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Matthews enthusiastically supported the Italians, later wrote: "If you start from the premise that a lot of rascals are having a fight, it is not unnatural to want...