Word: sumac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show that should strive for lightness seems to be selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that are much the gayest, most stylish, least wooden things in the show...
...domestic pictures are uninspiring. The personal appearance of Danny Kaye lends class to the Technicolor version of Call Me Mister, which opened yesterday at the Roxy, Seventh and 50th. Betty Grable and Dan Dailey grace the "75,000 inch Technicolor screen" in the former Broadway success; and Yma Sumac, the Dunhill dancers, and Hill Baird's marionettes give the stage show remarkable variety...
...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
...among the 6,000 listeners in Hollywood Bowl who could hardly believe their ears when the exotic [Peruvian singer] Yma Sumac stepped upon that platform and displayed what the critics later so aptly described as "the most phenomenal voice of the generation...
...hinterlands may still have doubts as to the authenticity of [Yma Sumac's] "four-octave-range" voice. Fortunately, your newsphoto of Miss Sumac leaves no doubt as to the authenticity of at least two reasons for her success in Hollywood...