Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Charles L. Wagner Production, with Hilde Reggiani, Bruno Landi, Carlos Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney and other artists, conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek; Victor; 16 sides). This album is a condensed version (excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...
...James Infirmary Blues (Artie Shaw; 2 sides; Victor). An oldtimer in a new suit, niftily tailored by Shaw's now-disbanded band, with some mean trumpeting and singing by "Hot Lips" Page...
Keep Smilin' (John Kirby; Victor). A primitive, mournful chant to the words "Let's keep laughing, let's be happy...
...British endorsement of Russia's title to the Baltic States (which had been Russian before 1918 as well as between June 1940 and June 1941). Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide to Poland's General Sikorski. In the House of Commons, Wing Commander Archibald William Henry James tried to wring from the Government the assurance that no post-war territorial settlement would be made without first submitting the proposal to Parliament...
...Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature; TIME...