Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom's big saloon on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, Kay, now 25, was singing with a new kind of voice. Howling down the horns had given her a husky growl on the blues-but she still had a sweet, sandpapered tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold...
...Product. The world of music had changed radically in the half century since brass bands pumped lugubriously before U.S. saloons and Americans fought mosquitoes at park concerts for the sweet sake of culture. Music was now a product to be seized by machinery, to be packaged, distributed and sold in wholesale lots. Canning and transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven...
...faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable Mr. Brown, who plays it straight and sweet, the picture is a pathetic miss...
...pleasure at a party, when a CBS executive heard him, auditioned him for the Burns & Allen show. Then Movie Director Clarence Brown saw him dancing with Gracie Allen at a party, and signed him for a picture. Since then he has made more than a dozen unsensational B-movies (Sweet Adeline, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi) and a fairly sensational $100,000 a year...
...remembering the great strike of 1946, unions approached management in the latter half of 1947 with a sweet reasonableness that was further sugared by the Taft-Hartley Act. Management was reasonable also; it granted wage boosts, then raised prices to absorb them...