Word: troubadours
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...glow was brighter than ever, for Soprano Callas had just signed a contract as leading soprano next fall with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Il Trovatore's first notes, when she stood in slender profile in her crimson robe and sang of her love for an unknown troubadour (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling), until she took poison and died in Act IV, her voice contained some of the bite and much of the richness of a clarinet. But its quality was warmed and softened with womanliness. It floated with effortless grace, swelled until it filled the whole block-long auditorium, tapered...
Across the jack-pine hills of Idaho came the twang of a familiar guitar and the whine of an even more familiar baritone lustily singing: "From this valley they say you are going, / We will miss your sweet face and your smile." Glen Taylor, troubadour politician, ex-Senator (1944-50) and Henry Wallace's vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, had come home from self-imposed exile in California to ask a favor from the voters. Said Taylor: "I want to go back to Washington because I want...
...Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor makes a parfit gentle knight and troubadour, while Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine are the very models of ladies fair. Supporting them are some polished character actors: Emlyn Williams as Ivanhoe's faithful Squire Wamba, Finlay Currie as Ivanhoe's father Cedric, Felix Aylmer as the patriarchal Isaac of York, father of Rebecca, and a whole host of Normans and Saxons, knights and squires, lords and ladies and kings and commoners from the days when knighthood was in flower...
...Cambridge student, armed with a proclamation from Governor Dever, followed Cambridge's troubadour to the microphones and began reading. Just as he was recounting the feats of Paul Revere and the compliments of Paul Dever, a crowd of legionnaires and citizens, all ablaze in oversized Taft buttons, surged down Garden Street from the Northwest. Soon Senator Taft strode into sight, his face set in a tight smile...
...inability to change her facial expression by changing her costume as frequently as possible. Mature simply wiggles his ears, whether hanging by his hands from an iron bar twenty feet off the ground or watching singer Russell sulk beside a piano. Hoagy Carmichael looks stupid as a troubadour-hillbilly-cupid type, and Vincent Price looks just plain tired...