Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well-organized, the Communists campaign in whatever way suits the situation, exploiting violence, logic or superstition. They beat up Congress workers, intimidate rich men in "Buy a Bicycle for Communism" fund-raising drives; they put on song-and-dance acts every night in gaily lit village stalls. The Communists denounce Nehru's dams and power projects, whispering to the peasants: "Electricity is being taken out of the water to give to the landlords." They disguise themselves as astrologers to predict that "by the stars, there will be a Communist India." The Communists even pose as holy men, rubbed with...
...Goodrich C. Schauffler's strident disapproval of "the modern U.S. preoccupation with the female bust": it might be helpful to suggest-solely in the interests of science, of course-that the mid-century American is not the only one who has been mammary-directed-see The Song of Solomon...
...Viennese accent. When the story begins, in 1911, Romberg is a piano player in a Manhattan restaurant belonging to Anna Mueller (Helen Traubel); when it ends he has made the big time. This thread of a story sews together some patches and snatches from Romberg shows (Maytime, The Desert Song, etc.), most of them super-duper production numbers. Among the performers: Rosemary Clooney, Gene Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Cyd Charisse, Howard Keel, Tony Martin. All the same, 132 minutes of spectacle is more than any audience can comfortably watch, and it takes all of Ferrer's electric charm...
Since the pig hadn't yet arrived, everyone went into the Rec for singing. There were two guitar players, one with a beard and one with a green shirt, but instead of playing songs immediately, someone started a game called "Treasure Island." Apparently this game wiles away long winter evenings. It looks like a great deal of fun, and perhaps its intricacies can be explained here. Number one player says, "I went to Treasure Island and I took a shoe." Then the second player repeats all this and adds another item, like a banana or something wilder. It goes...
Yvonne Adair, the brunette in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, plays an American actress filming a musical version of War and Peace in Paris. In her best song, "Josephine," she is given a little material assistance by Porter; he had descried her in the first act with "There's A Hollywood That's Good," resulting in a number several cuts under the lowliest College musical filler. Had the authors done their share, Miss Adair could stop the show and Miss Neff could keep it going...