[78-L] Hayes followed by clearing

[Taylor Bowie]

She wasn't one of the worst but certainly not one of the best...how did she 
get such a great reputation in the first place?  Maybe it was some other 
parallel universe  Helen Hayes who had all those hit plays on Broadway in 
the 30s and 40s.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Nice Finds


>
> Got 'em all..even the Helen Hayes (which I used on a Pearl transfer of 
> Weill material). Hey, listen to Helen doing Beat Beat Drums! She had to be 
> one of the worst actresses in the world. I saw her in Toronto..she walked 
> on the stage and got an ovation. Proves nothing.
>
>
>
> dl
>
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:29:02 -0700
>> Subject: [78-L] Nice Finds
>>
>> On Tues Leah and I stopped at an antique mall, Harpeth Antique Mall, off
>> I-65 south of Nashville in Franklin, 1203 Nurfresboro Rd, and were
>> surprised that the manager was a phonograph and record person, Cal
>> Zehner. He had some machines and supplies and a few hundred records of
>> limited interest. He had all of Tim Frabrizio's books for sale, which
>> reminded me that Tim had not been at ARSC. Zener also knows Tim.
>>
>>
>> There were about 20 or so classical albums and I was surprised that I
>> found a bunch of them on Victor to be of great interest to me -- some
>> non-music. Some I had been looking for for quite a while. I have the
>> LPs of the first two, but had never heard of the third one, and have
>> never seen any of these before.
>>
>>
>>
>> M 777 I Hear America Singing John Charles Thomas
>> (Kleinsinger-Whitman Cantana)
>>
>> M 753 Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays Otis and Camila Otis Skinner
>> M 909 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory Helen Hayes
>> (Kurt Weil settings of Americana lyrics)
>> (Bing's reading of The Star Spangled Banner as a poem is MUCH
>> BETTER than what Helen Hayes does on this one. She is over the top, and
>> Bing was contemplative.)
>>
>> M 768 Russian Liturgical Music Platoff Don Cossack Chorus
>>
>>
>> Two bucks a disc, near mint condition.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
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