Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tabu (Paramount). This film, if translated from pictures into words, would emerge in the form of a bare and gloomy island ballad. It tells the Polynesian legend of a love affair between an island boy and a girl who has been selected by her tribe for vestal consecration. The boy, Matahi, and the girl, Reri, escape from their own island to a more civilized one where he becomes the best pearl diver in the harbor. One night he dives into dangerous water to get a pearl which will enable them to go further away from the pursuing warrior Hitu. When...
Died. Charles K. Harris, 65, rich music publisher, composer of "After the Ball Was Over," ballad popular since the 1890's; in Manhattan; after a three-week illness...
...Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child...
Casey Jones, as all right-thinking men know, was a brave engineer. Minnesinger Shay tacks no embroidery on his tale, contents himself with reprinting a version of the famed ballad beginning, "Come all you rounders if you want to hear...
...Princess, Evelyn Herbert {The New Moon) is luscious-looking, hits good rich notes but experiences difficulty in making the lyrics intelligible. No such impediment is suffered by Actress Aubert who, in spite of her unfamiliarity with the language, manages to stop the show with a charming, multiple-rhymed ballad called "I Love Love," in which at one point she laments...