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...wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally in the intimate, emotionalized musical speech for which Mary Garden has a particular genius...
...regular program, which has been carefully planned out for diversity and interest will be varied with several solos and specialties. The Banjo Club will offer the "Washington Post March", "The Wedding of the Birds", "By the Waters of the Minnetonka" and a medley of football songs. The Mandolin Club will play "March Militaire", "Espana Waltz", "Two Guitars" and a tango entitled "Jalousie". The Vocal Club will be heard in "Two Grenadiers", "The Chorus of Peers", a group of sea chanteys and the "Bells of Saint Mary...
Numbers by the Vocal Club, the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs, and the gold Coast Orchestra will be supplemented by several specialty acts...
...program is as follows: Washington Post March Sousa Wedding of the Birds arranged by Rice Banjo Club Chorus of Peers Gilbert and Sullivan Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club Novelty Saxophone Specialty Robert White '32 Marche Militaire Schubert Mandolin Club Legerdemain Specialty William S. Warner '32 Intermission Hittin' the Bottle Gorney-Arlen Can This be Love? (from the Warner Bros. picture "Life of the Party") Gold Coast Orchestra Specialty Lute Solos W. S. Georges '32 Two Guitars Horlick Espana Waltz Waldteufel Mandolin Club Two Grenadiers Schuman-Zeiner Sea Chanteys (arranged by Terry) Vocal Club Football Medley (arranged...
...social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife seldom; when they brought him into Richmond to die, she came as quickly...