Word: ballading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repaired during the intermission, Piano No. 1 was wheeled forward and Casadesus undertook a Chopin ballad. Before he had got through 20 bars the pedal dropped off again. Pianist Casadesus leaped up, wrung his hands, sobbed, "I'm sorry," bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized...
...military than to its literary history. Caused by a mistake in orders, the sole practical significance of the charge was to give the glamour of a spectacular British victory to what was really a minor British defeat. Its significance in literature, as the inspiration of Tennyson's famed ballad, will be considerably enhanced by this picture. The Charge of the Light Brigade explains the confusion in the Crimea as romantically as possible. If the result is untrustworthy as research, it is superlatively valid as entertainment, with an honest emotional ring that makes it one of the outstanding cinemas...
...three since her cinema career began - she steals scenes from two oldtime stage mimes, dances, sings, mugs shamelessly on Little Eva's death bed. Kindest shot: the back of Frank Morgan's head when Shirley, her arms twined around his neck, is sobbing out an embarrassingly sentimental ballad called Picture Me Without...
...sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
...Great Dane until he and the dog crawl out of the room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg and Arlen ballad called In Your Own Quiet Way, and a tired little plot about the girl who gets the part...