Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who participated in the decision were not only the Congressmen who stood OPA against a wall; not only vocal businessmen, pinched between rising costs and ceiling prices; not only silent consumers who satisfied their impatience for goods by going to the black market, but also OPA itself. As the end approached it too was convinced of the necessity of raising prices (last week it granted a dozen important price boosts...
...children screamed along in ecstatic pursuit. The bandit dodged into the next street, cut through side streets, trying to shake them off. But the pack only increased in size and vocal power. It was a familiar game on familiar grounds...
...gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca," Strauss his "greatest Salome...
Dorothy Maynor's anthology of sacred music (DM 1043) is, unfortunately a collection of rather easily obtainable selections from Mozart, Bach, Handel, and Mondelssohn. Her interpretations and performances of them are reasonably good but do not reveal either the inspiration or the vocal proficiency of which Miss Maynor is probably capable. Accompaniment by The Victor Orchestra is only mediocre. Recording is good...
...excellent performance as Martha. She is ably seconded by Robert Pitkin (of "my object all sublime" fame), Le Roi Operti, Betty Luster, and several others. But Robert Douglas is sadly inadequate as the opera singer who is Martha's first love; he is fat with disturbing regularity, and his vocal shortcomings are not overcome by other saving graces...