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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...
...said of Frankie & Johnnie is that it is a well-staged lithograph. Scenes along the St. Louis river front are ably documented, the light ladies, gamblers, saloon inhabitants are clothed without anachronism. The plot adheres rather faithfully to the plot of the song. Most variations of the ballad agree that Frankie (a harlot) and Johnnie (a pander) were lovers- "And Oh, my God how they did love." Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits. Then it appears that Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie Bly.* Frankie learns where an assignation...