Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news. But last week a songwriter got too saucy with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
Mattiwilda Dobbs: Song Recital (Angel). The young (29) Atlanta Negro who has been cheering two continents with her remarkable operatic coloratura shows that she is equally adept in pastoral art songs...
Born. To Jennifer Jones (real name: Phyllis Isley), 35, doe-eyed, Oscar-winning (The Song of Bernadette) cinemactress, and David O. Selznick, 52, Hollywood producer (most famed for Gone With the Wind), her second husband (No. 1: the late Cinemactor Robert Walker): their first child (his third, her third), a daughter. Weight...
TIME errs in stating that "Mademoiselle" from Armentières was an invention . . . The little French girl who slapped a general's face and thus inspired the famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...
...data about title, label, publisher and performers at his fingertips. "Viola Dixxy-yeah, two x's," he announced, "singing Everyone Is Saying. We heard this last week, but maybe it's worth listening again for the girl-new talent." He played a few bars of a nondescript song by a pleasant, commonplace voice. "The girl, that's all there is to it," said someone over the noise. "Doesn't she sound like Patti Page?" said another. "Yeah, maybe too much." After a chorus Rolontz lifted the needle. Music Editor Joe Martin (formerly London Records' advertising...