Word: ballading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR FACE BEFORE ME (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion). The Schwartz & Dietz ballad taken through darktown by the ablest white blues singer...
...firmly rooted, in the annals of U. S. folklore as Steamboat Bill is the mournful ballad of Frankie & Johnnie. Last week the Frankie of the song popped up larger than life and blacker than Johnnie's two-timing heart. Before she was through telling her story, fleshy, 60-year-old Frankie Baker had poked holes enough in the time-tested legend to scuttle any folksong. It was not Johnnie she shot, but a man named Albert. He was not her man but an intruder in her bedroom. There never was any manstealing Nellie Ely. Self-defense, not jealousy...
Forgotten by one generation, this rollicking ballad of 1869 was revived for the next. In 1901 Charles Frohman produced Playwright Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Female lead was pretty, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore in her first starring role. The characters whistled and sang the old ditty but audiences blithely believed that both the dandified captain and his "Horse Marines" were something cooked up for their special entertainment...
Last week, on the anniversary of the accident, tiny Chatsworth (pop. 1,100) held a memorial service in the Village Park. Seventy-nve-year-old Louis Joseph Haberkorn, one of the first to reach the scene, presided, introduced nine survivors. Service ended with singing of the ballad The Bridge Was Burned at Chatsworth, written shortly after the wreck by one T. P. Westendorf, whose initials are the same as the unlucky railroad's. Excerpt...
...middle of the picture, director Jack Conway used longshots of a double so adroitly that cinemaddicts are not likely to detect Miss Harlow's absence. Good shots: the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah Park; Duke Bradley's assistant (Cliff Edwards) singing a race-track ballad "The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes," in a crowded car on the track special from Maryland; Bradley making book...