Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many famous men have tried to rewrite this verse; none ever persuaded the stubborn English to accept a new one (even after the young U.S. borrowed the tune for America). Last week George Bernard Shaw did another rewrite job. With un-Shavian reverence, but very Shavian unpoeticalness, he wrote...
...most expert control, its tones have a whistling, flatulent quality which even a flutist's best friends pass over in discreet silence. Its lower tones tend toward the hoot. When it is played loudly it goes sharp, when softly, flat. Only the greatest virtuosos can play it in tune...
...will ambassador. Also on this "Mexican Hayride" are Wilbur Evans to sing, June Havoc to sing and dance, and Luba Malina both to sing and to look beautiful. Of the three June Havoc stands out with her sparkling rendition of "There Must Be Someone For Me," the only standout tune in an otherwise weak Cole Porter score...
Divorced. By Deanna Durbin, 22, who sang Universal Pictures out of bankruptcy to the tune of a $20,000,000 box office in five years: Naval Reserve Lieut. Vaughn Paul, 28, onetime assistant cinema director; after two and a half years of marriage, for each the first; in Los Angeles...
...great quartet music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert will be exquisitely interpreted. The Budapest four play with the warmest understanding of their scores, the subtlest of teamwork and an almost incredible matching of tone. Their splendid recorded performances for Victor and Columbia have recently sold to the lively tune of about 300,000 records a year...