Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usher standing in the back of Manhattan's Paramount Theater was skinny and pimply faced and his mouth hung open. "Frank Sinatra was tearing the heart out of a ballad up there on the stage," he recalls, "and there was me, 17 years old and nobody...
...mere rattling of seats, which generally heralds the rise of a summer theater curtain, will inaugurate the dimming of the house lights at Wellesley's Alumnae Hall tonight. Elaborate brassladen ceremonies have been scheduled, which climax in a squadron of airplanes zooming overhead in letter "W" formation...
...Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed to help coach her into the U.S. big time, a complicated and careful process that involves picking songs that are right for her, enveloping her in publicity and the right kind of clothes (sexy but decorous) and getting good nightclub and theater engagements...
...Beryl is already an experienced trouper, and a trouper's daughter. She was born in a dressing room of a Plymouth theater. At three, she saved her father's vaudeville act. He had called for volunteer singers from the audience and got no response; in desperation he sent backstage for her, and she toddled out to sing Constantinople. By the time she was 14, father had a dance band and she became its featured singer. After the war, securely established as England's top singer of softly swung ballads, she got a key BBC show...
Last week, with her first U.S. record out (If My Heart Had a Window, I Want to Be Loved) and another due next week, Beryl faced the Broadway bobby-sox brigade, which decides a popular singer's fate* in the big and noisy Strand theater. To most soxers, she was a Shore dimly seen, but with a smooth timbre and phrasing of her own. Variety reported that "her click is unmistakable ... a definite new song personality." Sighed Beryl, who is a fresh, friendly but slightly reserved girl offstage: "I do hope they like me; I don't want...