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...eleven, she joined the "Kracker Kids Kabaret" and won a small reputation as a juvenile torch singer. Then, at 14, her voice broke during an attack of laryngitis; it came out, says Vera, "slightly lower and not so noisy...
...Torch singer Pat Rainey made the biggest impression on the assembled Yardlings. Her renditions of "Ay, Ay, Ay, I'll Love You Till I Die," "Cuanta La Gusta," "I Love You Yes I Do," and three other songs had her audience cheering and shouting...
...Cardinal Mindszenty can no longer be saved. It is the spiritual Cardinal Mindszenty in his martyrdom of mind and body that we can fortify by our prayers, that in his soul he may know that in another part of the world other men are holding high God's torch of justice . . . And in our own dear land each free man ... must protect and fight to keep his own integrity of conscience, his own God-given freedoms ... to save America and the rest of the democratic, God-loving world from trickery, torturings, disasters and defeat...
...Kiss Me, Kate, Porter's score blends several styles to harmonize with a play-within-a-play about a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He has ranged from comic ditties and Broadway torch ballads to songs in the rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew. Several take their titles, and the flavor of their lyrical development, from the play's Elizabethan verse. The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson solemnly declared that I Hate Men is "the perfect musical sublimation of Shakespeare...
Here & there the show has a nice rowdy zip, but oftener it is just brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way of joking is as familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...