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...Ballad Books and Ballad...
...Ballad Books and Ballad Men" is the title of 327 page work of Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt. The author puts forth in this volume a survey of ballad men, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis James Child '46, who was the predecessor of G.L. Kittredge '82 as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Two chapters are devoted to the contemporaneous story of Scandinavian balladry, particularly in its relation to the labors of Child. Appendixes present a large store of illuminating documents, hitherto unpublished, from the correspondence of Child and the Danish editor Grunting...
Symphony In Two Flats. No one qualifies for the title of British Matinee Idol better than handsome, dark-maned Ivor Novello (Davies), songwriter, theatrical manager, playwright, actor, cinemactor. A graduate of Magdalen (pronounced "maudlin") College, Oxford, he published his first ballad when 15. When he was 21 the War broke out. Mr. Novello signalized the event by composing the big-selling ballad, "Keep The Home Fires Burning...
...First and exclusive release of the only recording of the voice of Rudolph Valentino singing his favorite ballad...
...that has been tailored?far less elaborately than The Love Parade?to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily have been turned into a musical...