Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Whiteman set the pace with his 1,500th-odd playing of the Rhapsody. All four major networks agreed to stick in Gershwin tunes on almost every musical show that comes along. Among others, Todd Duncan (the original "Porgy") and every songstress from Lily Pons to Dinah Shore will give out with Gershwin in July. The climax will be a big outdoor concert, starring Oscar Levant, at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium on July 12. That will be exactly eight years and a day after Gershwin's death-a rather odd-figure anniversary until one considers that it coincides...
Although "summer replacements" should be radio's proving ground for aspiring rookies, the number it has developed into the big time in past years can almost be counted on the paws of a three-toed sloth. Chief summer survivors: lush, busty Songstress Hildegarde, baby-prat tling Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra...
Married. Deanna Durbin, 23, round-faced cinema songstress; and Felix Jack son, 43, German-born producer of her current film (Can't Help Singing); she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Las Vegas...
...sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
...felt it. Radio dance orchestras announced as many tunes as possible by French titles (Parlez Moi d'Amour). Manhattan's Hildegarde, a songstress who worked in Paris cafes in the '303 went on plugging the sentimental melody which she had helped to make No. 1 on the Hit Parade: I'll Be Seeing You (in "all the old familiar places" of Paris, the lyrics imply). Milliner Lilli Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris...