Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta last week, blonde, husky-throated Mrs. Betty Hill Karr, who learned how to wear clothes as a torch singer in Chicago's best nightclubs, got all dressed up for a ceremony that made her No. 1 woman of the C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers. She laid aside her welder's apron and toolmaker's slacks, flounced into her party clothes, pinned an orchid to her shoulder and was off to her local's big celebration...
...Sunday Punch," the other feature, does little to relieve the letdown of the first film. It's the success story of a house full of would-be Gene Tunneys and Billy Conns, who are spurred on by the charm of comely Jean Rogers, an unconvincing gold digger and torch singer. William Lundigan and Dan Dailey, Jr., work their way up together through the YMCA leagues into big time and finally battle it out, in the championship bout, for Rogers. Lundigan is KO'd, but gets the gal, who has in the meantime changed her ways. Even ring fans will find...
...singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career of her daughter, Adrienne Matzenauer, who sings blues and torch songs at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room. But of her own Broadway debut last week, Mother Matzenauer was as proud as a debutante soubrette. Said she: "I'm just branching out. I want to try everything...
...sorts of circumstances . . . when he joined up with the Rainbow Division in the last war although he was 38 years old with a wife and three children; when he came back from France in 1918 looking older and grimmer. . . . As long as I can remember he was carrying the torch for the U.S.A. . . . After the Japs bombed Hawaii . . . he tried to enlist but was told that he was too old. . . . It is true that my father has from time to time criticized the Administration. Does that make him a traitor? . . . If that is so we have lost our democracy before...
...issue has been confused and colored by the figure of the picturesque Petrillo. As a labor leader with a $46,000 annual income and completely dictatorial powers over the professional lives of the American federation of Musicians' 138,000 members, he is a distinctly American phenomenon. To musicians, whose torch he has faithfully carried for twenty-two years with notable increases in wage scales and decreases in amateur competition, he is a popular and useful phenomenon. To musical artists, of whom he has said that there is "no difference between Heifetz playing the fiddle and a fiddler in a tavern...