Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cavalry Song...
...work at Chicago's Chez Paree, her debut in any such emporium of liquor and lowbrow music. "There will be no Wagner," she promised. "This will be nothing but fun . . ." Her big number: a take-off on Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson mangling that sweet old song Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey...
...Shaved Heads. The meeting began with a pair of comedians with shaved heads who did a scathing song & dance satire of Romulo. Sample: "Are you the author of I Saw Bataan Fall?" "Yes, sir." "Where were you when Bataan fell?" "I was hiding in a tunnel." The tunnel was Corregidor, the book's title was a little wrong, and the accusation was unfair, but it went over fine. Then the shaved heads took up a report that Romulo had plagiarized from Adlai Stevenson. "Why didn't you steal a speech from Eisenhower?" "Because I am going to lose...
Among the sun-baked hills of Santa Susana, covered with rough brush and scrub oak, the priests and prophets of ancient Israel might walk without surprise; such was the hard land where Jacob lay down to dream on a pillow of stones and David praised God with song and sword. But the hills of Santa Susana are 35 miles from Los Angeles, and the Jews who walk there are men like Furniture Manufacturer Julius Fligelman or Actor Paul Muni. They and other U.S. Jews of all ages come to Brandeis Camp Institute as to a spiritual oasis where they...
...Back." There was plenty of joking and laughter, but also long hours of serious give & take with a rabbi. As with each retreat, the most moving moment was the evening ceremony of Havdalah (Separation), which ushers out the Sabbath, Music Director Helfman's voice rose in the sacred song of Elijah, who will herald the coming Messiah; in three concentric circles, their arms around each other's shoulders and waists, the men picked up the chant, swaying with the cadence. When the service ended and the lights came on one by one, many of these harddriving, hard-driven...