Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...
Bobby Byrne's orchestra, which gained national fame when it broke Glenn Miller's attendance record at Glenn Island, will swing out from 10 to 8 o'clock. Vocal side of the musical entertainment will feature Dinah Shore and Byrne's songstress, Dorothy Claire...
Personable Bob Crosby looks like his brother, talks like him, resembles him no further. Singer Ruth Terry (Alexander's Ragtime Band] reveals that she has not forgotten how to sell a song; Songstress Gertrude Niesen is scarcely given a chance to. Silly shot: Comedian Eddie Foy Jr. giving commands to his platoon in such a singsong voice that the platoon breaks into a conga...
...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...
...come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...