Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine Pine Street (by John Colton, Donald Blackwell, Carleton & William Miles; Margaret Hewes, producer). The case of Lizzie Borden, who is popularly supposed to have murdered her father and stepmother in Fall River two generations ago, has produced a body of New England legend and at least one folk ballad. It has taken four playwrights to stage the tale, and what they have done is not important. What is important is the amazing transfiguration of Lillian Gish as an actress...
...earth. There was one faire Mayde, vertuous . . . Full many a lass was laid on the lippe. He say no more.--Ho, Miles, the capon. Bringe thy tabor and pipe, troll away, like a foole for Hise Maiestie!" They drank, and talked, and sang. The Vagabond remembers snatches of a ballad...
...John Gay and Ballad Opera," Dr. Noyes, Harvard...
...John Gay and Ballad Opera," Dr. Noyes, Harvard...
...little to do throughout the performance save appear stupid, but Rex Weber and Impersonator Albert Carroll are called upon often and not in vain. Mr. Weber vastly amuses his audience by prodigious feats of ventriloquism, then turns serious and leads a band of breadline tatterdemalions in a genuinely stirring ballad called "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Mr. Carroll is at various times a spiritual medium, Lynn Fontanne, James John Walker...