Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian ritual dance, and an occasional monotony in the total effect of the score. For connoisseurs of show music the best songs are "New England in the Autumn," a gay number by John Knowles, John Lemmon, and William Scudder, and "If He Ain't Got a Woman," a bluesy tune by Courtney Crandall and Sendder. For mothers and sisters of Pudding members Julian Hatton, Jr., as a beautiful Priscilla and Frederick Lamont, Jr., as somebody funny called Billington stand out in the all-male cast. And for those who want to follow a few drinks by an entertaining first...
This disc jockey, Kurt Webster of radio station WBT, has done a job other jockeys have dreamed of for years-not only reviving a tune but an entire orchestra. . . . Webster plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...
...sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental numbers should be good for the U.S. hit parade...
Presumably hoping that Pastor Rockwood would change his tune, the court postponed sentence (admonition, suspension or excommunication) until next May. But militant Minister Rockwood promptly resigned. He said that he would "go out on the streets and from house to house like the apostles of old. . . ." At week's end, he was looking for a hall in which to start a church...
...school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains. "I am going to let my books speak for themselves." The Manatee spoke to the tune of about 170,000 copies. First printing of Cider from Eden...