Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immoral Isabella? There is a salty ballad men sing when they are drunk in which Christopher Columbus pleads noisily for ships and cargo; for which he promises Isabella, queen of Spain, to bring her back Chicago. This play is written in the same spirit, but without the humor. The Queen and the mariner are represented as in love with one another, much to the regal irritation of Kind Ferdinand; costumed in his nightie. The queen is a teaser; one never knows whether her love was lewd or purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon...
...McNamee sang soprano. Now 34, he has long since lost his high notes but still sings in concert as a baritone, always including in his program "The Fields O' Ballydare," simple Irish ballad. But he has little time for concerts. Things happen fast in the U. S., and, wherever in the U. S. anything nationally important is happening, Graham McNamee sits there telling the world...
Projects. When gentlemen of the press arrived they were not so much received as feted. "I have written a poem," said their host impressively, "a poem in which I have described the hideous things in prison life. I have called this poem "The Ballad of Maidstone Jail," and it will soon be published...
...Midst the war's great curse stands the Red Cross Nurse She's the rose of no man's land."- -WAR BALLAD...
...Street Banjo Club Densmore At Father's Door Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes Glee Club Messers Hanighen and Eiseman, Mr. Stetten Specialties To a Wild Rise MacDowell On the Beautiful Blue Danube Strauss Mandolin Club Sunny Disposish How I Love You Orchestra Mr. Biltcliffe Specialty Border Ballad Australia Glee Club Harvard Songs Banjo and Glee Clubs