Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cultivated the manner of a Habsburg prince, offers the biggest marquee names, second only to the Copacabana. They include oldtimers and almost-old-timers (Nelson Eddy, Lena Home, currently Dick Haymes and Fran Jeffries) as well as occasional newcomers; recently the room sported the Kim Sisters-three Koreans who sing American and yodel, too. The Maisonette at the St. Regis has a small circle of chanteuses who supposedly appeal to society-Julie Wilson, Vicky Autier et al. The Cotillion Room at the Pierre does abridged versions of operettas that suggest only condensed milk...
...major concern was her stage children. "If I have to pick up those kids," she said, "I'll get a hernia or something." With Translator John Gutman, Farrell changed some of the libretto's more flowery passages. "I'll be damned if I'll sing 'Let me fight trepidation,' " she said. Her version: "Give me strength, give me courage...
Hear the Animals Sing (Columbia). There was this little boy and he had a magic stick and when he rubbed cows, cats, dogs and lambs with his stick, these animals (real sound effects) began to sing (real tape technician) songs like The Farmer in the Dell and all like that. Three to-sixes go positively daft over it, but Papa and Mama need magical first aid while the cowcophony...
Things look bright at the outset when Arthur and Guinevere meet romantically and talk of themselves and marriage and sing of Camelot's charms...
...during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk, and at the embassy piano listening to "Ernie" Bevin sing cockney ballads. It is by a thousand such little cinema frame snippets that Lady Diana's book gains value as a personal portrait of a period-World War II and after-just as her other two volumes cover World War I, the twittering '20s and the fateful...