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...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...
...ring. Not to abrade further the nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before the show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled "The Soldier's Song," always played when the Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band...