Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that has been tailored?far less elaborately than The Love Parade?to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily have been turned into a musical...
...toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged troops who were battling for the life of the Red State...
...whose specialty it is to lay over his interiors and landscapes a film of sentiment much like the tearful coloring with which John McCormack colors his celebrated upper register. In his customary manner, Mr. Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story of frustrated love, frankly just a vehicle for Tenor McCormack. He sings eleven songs. His voice records beautifully, the slight metallic timbre of the talking machine eliminating the saccharine that makes McCormack cloying in his natural...
...when she chooses her next picture ? its burlesque is far more successful than the elaborate cabaret scenes, or that expected moment when the star, discovering that the man for whom she has sacrificed everything, whom she has made successful, has be trayed her, sings alone and downcast a ballad of unrequited loyalty. As the fighter whom she coaxes out of a cabaret and into a gymnasium, Robert Armstrong, who makes a specialty of playing stupid fight ers, gets several laughs. Best shot: the big fight between Armstrong and McCloskey, when Fannie Brice yells to McCloskey to hit her onetime...
Folklore experts were quick to identify Mrs. Drew's rhymes as a variation of the old ballad "A Jealous Lover" which begins...