Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major U.S. fad. "Detective cameras" were disguised as ladies' handbags, muffs, briefcases. President Grover Cleveland delightedly used his Kodak all day long on a fishing trip, was dismayed to learn in the evening that he should have wound the film. The Pink Lady, a 1911 musical, had a song...
...most to bring oldtime American themes to the ballet stage (Rodeo, Fall River Legend). Last week Choreographer de Mille was off on a new tack: with her own company of 19, she set out to test a hunch that there is room for an outfit offering dance, pantomime and song in a repertory rich in American themes...
...more than a decade, the nation's auto dealers have had one major complaint to file with Detroit: too few cars. Last week, they sang a different song. Across the U.S., dealers complained that they could not sell all the cars Detroit turned out. Texas dealers passed a resolution condemning "the production of automobiles in quantities far in excess of the number which can be orderly and efficiently sold." Kansas dealers, at their convention, called for a production cutback. Even one of the manufacturers joined the chorus. Said Studebaker's Chairman Paul G. Hoffman: "The automobile factories must...
Despite its good looks and good music, Gilbert and Sullivan never quite comes together as a rounded piece of entertainment. The script so weakens the true story of the great collaborators that it is blown about like a dead leaf in each gust of song. The real human interest lies in the history of Sullivan's attempts to make himself "a Bach, when he was only...
...their song, written in 1905, which begins...