Word: ballyhooer
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...made her debut in Mulhouse, Alsace. Three years later she was summering in Verona with the Zenatellos, building her weight up to 105 pounds, preparing costumes and studying the roles she was engaged to sing her first year at the Metropolitan. Fortunately she was spared the Chamber of Commerce ballyhoo which spoiled Colora tura Marion Talley. After her debut Talley found herself in shoes too big for her but she became high-handed nevertheless, refused advice, in three years was out of the Metropolitan. Coloratura Pons has yet to prove herself. But on the night of her debut after...
...aviation editor of the New York World, submits: "... That the D. F. C. has strayed from its original conception as [an] acknowledgment of 'heroism or extraordinary achievement ... in an aerial flight' and degenerated somewhat into the plaything of politicians and a pawn in the hands of the Ballyhoo Boys...
...Ballyhoo. For the first time a musicomedy has been based on the somewhat amusing Bunion Derbies (1928 and 1929) of Promoter C. C. Pyle. In Ballyhoo the promoter of the transcontinental footrace is Q. Q. Quale (William Claude Duganfield, better known as W. C. Fields). Funnyman Fields exhibits a rich form of comedy which appeals freshly because his foibles and frustrations are the sort that take place in life, never in the theatre. As may be expected...
...weak, "full of boils," telling Dempsey that Tunney would be an easier match than Wills; telling both to keep quiet about what he told them. At last the Tunney-Dempsey fight was arranged in Philadelphia and Tunney won the title. Then came further services from Agent Mara ? the ballyhoo...
...fact that it is supposed to be based on the life of Jenny Lind, "Swedish Nightingale" of the Victorian Opera stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history?the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...