Word: tremolos
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Frankie Addams is a twelve-year-old girl who does not belong. To put it in her own words, delivered tremolo at the end of Act I, she doesn't have a "We" feeling about anybody--just her own "I" feeling. Her mother is dead, her father is wrapped to in his business, and the neighborhood girl's club has turned her down. All she has is the family's colored cook--solid in more than one sense of the word, four-times married, humorous--and a small boy named John Henry. These two are very comforting, but no girl...
Shades of Blue (Ethel Waters; Remington). A worthwhile reissue of an old-timer warbling with wide but fine-toned tremolo some famed old songs: Cabin in the Sky, Am I Blue, Dinah...
...been singing at the Met all her life. Said Helena Braun's husband, who as Wotan was on stage with her most of the time: "We watched each other for mistakes but there were none." The critics cheered her acting performance, generally agreed that her voice, if tremolo-ridden, was strong, wide-ranging and well used...
Jeanne Grain has sensitive eyes, but she uses them with as little restraint as a ham singer's tremolo; her considerable charm needs good direction. All Dan Dailey needs is a good picture. Oscar Levant gets along all right, good show or bad, with his peculiar brand of vinegar. One obvious tip for those who make would-be "nostalgic" musical movies: the old arrangements for the old songs are fully as nostalgic as the melodies. Frequently the fancy new arrangements are terrible; always, they sabotage the nostalgia...
...vibrato is a regular movement in the voice . . . coming from an off-&-on impulse of the diaphragm in tension. ... A tremolo is a very irregular movement in the voice . . . deriving from a fluttering movement of the tongue. As this movement grows worse it includes the jaw, larynx and, in advanced cases, the entire head...