Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of The King and I ripples shimmeringly along. The Rodgers score-which eschews exotic Bali-Hijinks-is thoroughly pleasant, with the gaiety of I Whistle a Happy Tune, the lilt of Getting to Know You, the marchlike verve of The Royal Siamese Children, which introduces to Anna and the audience a long procession of beguiling youngsters. Jo Mielziner's sets are gracefully evocative, Irene Sharaff's costumes steadily gorgeous. There is a delightful Jerome Robbins ballet-a daintily menacing Siamese version, all stylized and symbolic, of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...home front so out of tune with the war front? . . . Carried to extremes, this "Do it my way or else" conflict between industry and labor leaders can do irreparable damage to our troops in Korea. Should not our concern for them take precedence over our personal considerations? Members of a family do not argue in the living room when a burglar is breaking in the kitchen door...
Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...Class Oration is traditionally a serious talk, while the Ivy Oration is a humorous speech about the class. The Class Ode, sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard," is led by the Class chorister. The Class Poem, read by the Class Poet, is generally reminiscent in character...
...January she was signed for appearances on Du Mont's TV show, Once Upon a Tune. Last week she opened a four-week run in a smart East Side Manhattan nightclub, is nightly tearing the heart out of the old Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart tunes that have always been her favorites, e.g., Glad to Be Unhappy, Manhattan, and I've Got a Crush...