Word: stagefright
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...radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were Pianist Jose Iturbi, with a swing item in his repertory and "okeydokey" in his vocabulary, and Noel Coward, who upstaged everybody, gave Carole stagefright...
...last week was Ganna Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
...TIME, Oct. 8), permitted it to be announced last week that she would sing in Tosca in Washington Nov. 7 as guest artist with the American Music Drama. Walska performances have been promised before, to Chicago and Manhattan, but hitherto something has always intervened.† Walska herself claims acute stagefright...