Word: tremolos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records represent Sheen's public sermons rather than apologetics in camera, for prospective converts,, but they strikingly reveal both his manner and his matter. The manner: lucid confidence, forceful but not bullying. There is no shying from the emotional appeal or the resonant tremolo as he intones...
Sentimental Journey (20th Century-Fox), a soft-tremolo, full-quart weeper, should induce more snifflling and blubbering in the dark, more purse-fumbling and furtive eye-dabbing, than anything out of Hollywood since Marguerite Clark went to Heaven as Little...
...most up-&-down performer. When she is good, she is very good; when she is bad, she is quite bad - and often she is both in the same evening. Her full-blown voice, rich and dark in the lower tones, sometimes climbs to an unsteady tremolo. As confused by her critics as they are by her, Milanov says : "You try to do your best to please the public, please critics, please everybody. Then you lose weight and they don't like you. What you do? You get bugs in the head." Milanov used to weigh over...
Ruth Posselt, in the Sonata opus 108, flung herself into the music (endangering the limbs of the 30 people sitting on the stage), turned the first movement conflict into one hell of a brawl, handied rhythmical complexities with fine spirit, and, despite an occasional aggravating tremolo and an E string that was always about to roll over and die, gave a satisfying and exciting performance of the piece...
Five months ago in similar circumstances Orson Welles did a bad imitation of the majestic Barrymore tremolo and snorts. This time Mack called for another Barrymore. From the 'M.G.M. lot came Brother Lionel in time for a quick run-through with the cast. As the show opened, Vallee announced: "Tonight . . . Lionel Barrymore is John Barrymore. Greetings, Lionel." Cadenced Brother Barrymore in reply: "Just call me John, Rudy...