Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many another bandleader has tried to imitate what Lombardo calls his organ tone, his publicity man calls "the sweetest music this side of heaven," and others call just this side of mooing. Imitators have had their men tune off key, nick their reeds and pour warm milk into the bells of their saxophones, but they have never quite hit it. Guy says his sweet simple music is "for people already in love or potentially in love. . . . We try not to displease anyone...
...heroine, Penny Parker (Susanna Foster) frequently climbs out of herself in double-exposure to step into her dream life (a series of low-budget production numbers in a light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady...
...atomic books burdened the newsstands.* Few contained anything important or trustworthy which had not already been published in the now-famed Smyth Report (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes; Princeton University Press; $1.25). Some of the new books were sprinkled with palpable errors. Others burbled with the gee whiz tone of popular science. Some gave detailed descriptions of atomic engines for airplanes and automobiles. (Most responsible scientists believe that such engines will not be designed for many years. When finally built-if ever-they will probably not resemble anything known at present...
...Tone of a Sigh. Like most script writers, Author Morse is virtually unknown to the mass of radio listeners. Morse might pass for a professor. Spectacles cover his squinty eyes; he walks with a stoop. He is a painfully shy man who habitually secretes himself in out-of-the-way corners in restaurants. He writes-in a dingy little Hollywood cubicle-in rigid seclusion. By 6:30 in the morning Morse is locked in his office, crouched over his typewriter, and hoping for an idea...
...usually gets one. In three hours he can turn out an episode, complete with commercials and the detailed stage directions in which he specializes. He knows exactly how each episode should be acted, down to the tone of a sigh. Morse demands repeated rehearsals until his cast achieves exactly the effect he wants...