Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beguine." In a baggy sweater and skirt, Miss Ghostly clatters about the stage in a primitive tango, screeching of her romance with a Harvard man in Boston's "native quarter." The fourth in a talented quarter is Robert Clary, a 14-ounce French import, who mugs through another bouncy tune, "I'm in Love With Miss Logan." Apparently ageless, Clary easily changes his school boy costume for white tie and tails to serenade oversized showgirls...
Deacon Farrar finds the right tune for a paper not in his office (he has none) or his Laguna Beach, Calif, home but in a hotel room in the city where he is working. There, for a fee of about $100 a day and up, he cuts up heads from piles of old newspapers, pastes the letters into new arrangements, makes as many as 50 sample dummies. (Once a frightened chambermaid told the hotel manager: "There's a crazy man upstairs cutting out paper dolls.") Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect...
Ethel Merman is again Ambassador Sally Adams: brassy, breezy and profane. She intimidates the Irving Berlin songs with her raucous voice, getting out every beat of rhythm and a good deal of the tune. With her immense mouth and her bright, frank eyes--for twenty years symbols of Broadway--she gives the film the excitement of authentic musical-comedy...
...Russia's stone-faced Andrei Gromyko (serving as a stand-in for Andrei Vishinsky) delivered the set Soviet piece last week. Perhaps because the new lyrics had not yet arrived from Moscow, he played the same old scratchy tune: the U.S. had started the Korean war; the U.S. had blocked every genuine attempt to end it; U.S. armed forces are guilty of "terror...
Audition. In Detroit, Judge Vincent Brennan settled a complicated contract suit between a singer and an orchestra leader, then broke into a ditty to the tune of April Showers, said: "I just wanted you to know that I was musically qualified to decide the case...