Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then entered Jeanette Wolff, a former governess whom her friends call "The Trumpet" because she has become one of Berlin's toughest, most vocal anti-Communist delegates. A resolution defying Sokolovsky's order was passed; but below, the mob was waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again...
Last week, Manhattan opera fans were given a pretty good idea of what The Duenna is all about. Greenwich Village's aggressive little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8) had acquired two vocal scores from which it squeezed out an arrangement for two pianos and a full complement of 19 singers...
Leonard Osborn turns in a magnificent performance on vocal and acting levels as Earl Tolloller, and Richard Walker is fine as his friendly rival, the Earl of Mountararat. Richard Watson does his brief bit as Private Willis perfectly. Perhaps the weakest member of the cast is Charles Dorning as the male love interest, Strephon. Dorning's voice and style, while certainly adequate, are not up to the abilities of his fellows...
...Molnaresque playwright. Its presumable moral: when it comes to finding a happy ending for a sorry mess, only a playwright will do. The playwright's young godson is engaged to a beautiful prima donna. Late one night, godfather and godson overhear the lady, through thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous love scene with an actor. While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on how to save the day: the guilty lovers had really been rehearsing-a play which has still to be written...
...Vocal Talents Explored...