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...Vagabond King (Paramount) provides a multimillion-dollar answer to a question that nobody has been asking: Where are the snores of yesteryear? In 1901, the short, unhappy life of François Villon, the notorious balladist of 15th century France, was rewritten by Playwright Justin McCarthy as a long, claptrappy rapier romance that held the stage for decades and made E. H. Sothern the most famous scenery-chewer of his time...
...Music Hall imported from his quiet Mount Vernon home minstrelsy's last great survivor, white-haired, 75-year-old Neil O'Brien, star balladist and endman in the days of the late Lew Dockstader and George Primrose. Affably, Oldtimer O'Brien sat through the show, went backstage afterward and made a speech to the assembled company. "Any show that had the Rockettes in it," remarked he, with dry tact, "would be a success...
...This balladist of the Middle West, whose books sell millions of copies, is as representative of the great sentimentality of America, as the Ford car is of our thrift. He writes of tears and heartaches, of virtue rewarded, and of red, red blooded love. He represents beauty to the multitude, and to the multitude beauty is too often artificial flowers, but how important to them! Mr. Guest's poems will be forgotten tomorrow; but as ballads of the times they cannot be neglected. His collected poems, under the revealing title The Passing Throng, will be published this season...
READ the Pish Ball in Time and the Hour, ready Saturday. Experimenter, Prof. Joseph Larving; Balladist, Prof. G. M. Lane; Italianizer, Prof. F. J. Child; Translator, Prof. J. R. Lovell. For sale at Sever...
READ the Pish Ball in Time and the Hour, ready Saturday. Experimenter, Prof. Joseph Larving; Balladist, Prof. G. M. Lane; Italianizer, Prof. F. J. Child; Translator, Prof. J. R. Lovell. For sale at Sever...
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