Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paolicelli preaches in Brooklyn. Weekdays he cleans Brooklyn's streets. Last week Preacher-Street Cleaner Paolicelli celebrated his 38th birthday in notable fashion: at Jamaica, L. I., he was consecrated a bishop in "The Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson." Features of the seven-hour ceremony were vocal selections from the Sanitation Department's glee club (in which Bishop Paolicelli sings bass), an inspirational address by Deputy Sanitation Commissioner Matthew J. Diserio...
...handles the part with surprising adeptness and conviction. Although shot with the conventional misunderstandings and confusion of names which are all straightened out in the third act, it supplies a good deal of laughs from curtain to curtain. The dialogue is clever in spots, but the facial and vocal expressions of the star really bring down the house...
...some comparison, listen to Tommy Dorsey's smooth work on his recording, or Jimmy Lunceford's Deccording with its beautiful brass work behind the vocal. Then listen to Louis Armstrong's (Vocalion) disc for what most critics consider to be the greatest solo work on "Stardust," and Benny Goodman's (Victor) for the top orchestral rendition. Unusual versions are Art Tatum's fast but flashy pianistics (Decca), the binging of the one and only Crosby (Brunswick), and movie star Anita Louise's harp pluckings for Royale
...themselves out of their hitting slumps. There is enough all-around ability on the Crimson roster to give any team in the league a good game. There are lots of choice seats, yours for the sitting, around the Soldiers Field diamond; and the Harvard nine could use some real vocal support--even of the Brooklyn variety. Don't condemn the Harvard games as being dull; go down and liven them...
Undergraduates who have used their vocal chords for any purpose, from debating to serenading, will have the opportunity to face a microphone tonight in the Crimson Radio Network tryouts...