Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entertainment will be highlighted by Rita Gam, movie Actress, al Capp, song writer, and Betty Bartley, leading lady in the stage play "Twin Beds...
Four years ago. Marti decided to leave Sarah Lawrence College (where she was a sophomore) for show business. Unwilling to cash in on her father's name, she changed hers to Stevens. It took her a while to learn to put a song across, and her first few engagements (in Las Vegas, Nev., Chicago, New Orleans) were disappointing. She picked up know-how in the big, brassy clubs of Reno and Montreal. "I learned to give a rough, hip-swinging show in those barns," she says. "If they don't like you in the barns, they just yell...
...compelling desire to live greatly and magnanimously, and to give them the knowledge and awareness, the faith and the trained facility to get on with the job. Especially the faith, for as someone has said, the whole world now looks to us for a creed to believe and a song to sing. The whole world . . . and our own young people first...
Died. Augustin Duncan, 80, veteran Broadway actor (A Man of the People, Lute Song) and producerdirector, brother of the late dancer Isadora Duncan and Poet-Lecturer Raymond Duncan; of a heart attack; in New York City. In the late '20s, at the height of his career, he began losing his sight but continued to act, in 1932 successfully played the part of the blind beggar in Synge's The Well of the Saints, acted other roles with such skill that audiences often forgot that he could...
...kids in the Ohio River town of Cresap's Landing sing that song except John and Pearl Harper. And they have reason: their bank-robbing father is in Moundsville Prison waiting to be hanged. Before The Night of the Hunter has gone many pages, Ben Harper lives out the doggerel and swings for his crimes. The secret and, eventually, the terror around which Author Grubb's skin-prickling first novel unfolds is: What did Ben Harper do with the $10,000 in crisp, green 100s that he killed two bank clerks...