Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tied down by the able Mr. Leach, and are constrained most convincingly to apply to the needs and trends of the moments. Essentially, the argument involves the Menckenian attack on the "joiner," but it employs this jeremiad in a gentler, more discursive, and more appealing way; it is a bit of comment apt and in good taste...
When he wrote "The Last Round-Up" he tried something different. He used a gentle, monotonous rhythm to suggest the easy gait of the cowboy's horse. He broke the lyrics with instrumental interludes for the rider to get his breath, or, in the evening, to strum a bit on his guitar. He violated all Tin-Pan Alley tradition when he let his song ramble moodily along, instead of limiting himself to a cut-&-dried 32-bar chorus. But his publishers were not impressed when he gave them his manuscript two years ago, a rude affair with a simple...
...shambling Billy Hill is a bit befogged by the song's raging success. Most satisfying to him is the fact that in the Southwest honest-injun cowboys, who rarely sing cowboy songs nowadays, are singing "The Last Round-Up" and singing it as if it belonged to them...
Composer Deems Taylor conducted some of his own music, managing his pince-nez with one hand, his baton with the other. Efrem Zimbalist fiddled. Then Kate Smith sang the big siren song from Samson & Delilah while Stokowski, a bit unnerved, conducted...
...stupid mother in the family who finds life simple and amusing. As usual Miss Boland makes the most of her part. Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, and Hardie Albright fill the major roles of minor importance satisfactorily; and Lyda Roberti, as Jenny, the cook, acts capably, just a bit too capably to be hidden in the kitchen most of the time...