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...pride-bound U.S. Marine Corps dove into its statistical records last week, came up with the announcement that nearly 90% of its 589,852 officers and men had served overseas in World War II. Marine officers, who had long sung "We are proud to claim the title of United States Marine," could be proudest of all: 98.3% of them had seen active duty overseas...
...Negro has ever sung or been invited to sing a principal role in the Metropolitan Opera. Even dark-skinned roles (Otello, Aïda and her father, the Ethiopian King, the African slaves in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine) have always been sung by whites. The staid Met says that its board welcomes "all operatically competent singers." By the Met's definition, those who would not make the grade include: Tenor Roland Hayes, Baritones Paul Robeson and Todd Duncan, Soprano Dorothy Maynor and Contralto Marian Anderson-five of the best voices in the U.S. or any country...
...After teaching music and English in Louisville (Ky.) City College and Washington's Howard University, he made his operatic debut in Manhattan in an all-Negro version of Cavalleria Rusticana. George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type. Dis, dat, dese...
Strictly G.I. (Asch, 8 sides). World War II barracks ballads cleaned up for the old folks at home, sung by soldiers. Performance: good. Recording: fair...
...years Tenor Jack Smith has sung on the air almost as often, but neither as well nor as profitably, as Bing Crosby. An old radio hand at 29, Jack Smith has never had a sponsored show of his own, has sung for his supper on scores of sustaining programs. Last week, the biggest spenders in radio, Soap Makers Procter & Gamble, gave him one of radio's best spots: a four-times-a-week Jack Smith Show (CBS, 7:15-7:30 p.m., E.W.T...