Word: ballading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hero of a ballad, Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by John Townsend Trowbridge (1878-1916). Farmboy Green, 14, eager to fly, built homemade wings, jumped from a rooftop, landed unhappily...
...previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This time I was able to rescue just a few from the crowd, particularly this throaty declamation, with gestures, "You a man? God made a blunder." The rough simplicity of the ballad, "She is more to be pitied than censured (for a man was the cause of it all)", likewise struck my fancy...
Composer Friml's score has charm equal to anything he has done in the 22 years which have passed since he wrote High Jinks. "Sweet Fool" is a ballad worthy of place among modern Schmalzmusik. But the libretto with its creaky structure belongs to the bygone era of celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also...
...buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
...Supreme Court, belongs not to a soulless corporation but to a flesh and blood minstrel, David Graves George of Gretna, Va." But, unfortunately for Minstrel George, his wife, his 14 children and the World-Telegram editorial writer, the Supreme Court had not undertaken to decide the ownership of the ballad. All it-The Press estimated the royalties as high as $2,000,000. A more likely figure is $375,006.* had done was to pass on a technical kink and deny the legality of Victor's belated appeal from the trial court to the Circuit Court. If lazy newshawks...