Word: vagabonde
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...mistress of ceremonies, played by Blyth Danner, announces that three hobos will re-enact the scene in which they discovered and buried the body of Joseph Axminster, another vagabond, so that his two friends in the audience will know what became of him. She also announces that the back of the stage--bare except for a crate that becomes Axminster's coffin and some stools--is the municipal garbage dump and that off to the right is a jail. Her best acting is done later in the show when she play's Axminster's dead body...
...during the vo-dee-o-do era of rumble seats and rolled-down hose that Rudy Vallee first took megaphone in hand, intoned "I'm just a vagabond lover," and invented the crooner. In the 35 years since, the crooner has endured through a succession of other musical crazes to become an American institution-if one that almost went under in the first great waves of rock 'n' roll. In the last few years the crooner has come back stronger-and sleeker-than ever...
...penalties to get their subs into the game. It was the year collegians outdrew the pros?when attendance in the Big Ten averaged 59,000 a game to 49,000 in the National Football League. And, most of all, this was Ara Parseghian's year, the year a restless vagabond from Ohio took over a demoralized Notre Dame team that had spent five years forgetting how to win?and taught them how again...
...Paris, workmen found a battered box containing 45 master records (78s), pressed between 1940 and 1942 by Chanteuse Edith Piaf, who died a year ago at 47. Made in her prime, before illness and alcohol dulled her voice, the records include melodies, such as Fais-Moi Valser and Le Vagabond, that "the Sparrow" made famous onstage but was miracle," never said a known to Philips have cut. executive. "It's "We a don't know how they got there. Perhaps a technician had to dump them in the Occupation. Perhaps they were even considered rejects." Disdaining his rightful...
Constancy, thy name is Rudy Vallee, 63. On Oct. 13, the onetime Vagabond Lover will complete his third full year on Broadway as J. B. Bigley, the executive who yearns for knitting and well-knit redheads. The star of How to Succeed in Business, etc. (which the French translate as Comment Reussir en Affaires) will thus have stayed with the show longer than any star in musical history. But in October he resigns to depart with his fourth wife, Eleanor (whom he married in 1949), for a nightclub tour. Why so faithful to show biz? Proudly displaying his four French...