Word: blossoms
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...ever hear how the life of man is divided? Twenty years a-growing, 20 years in blossom, 20 years a-stooping, and 20 years declining. From his first 20 years Maurice O'Sullivan recalls many wonderful things, and the swing and the lilt of his words make you think they were sung to the harp of Tara. When he was less than a year old his mother died, dear God bless her soul and the souls of the dead, so Maurice was sent to a school in Dingle since his older brothers and sisters had little more sense...
...story, "Be Mine Tonight" will be successful because of Magda Snyder's slyness; but as an operetta it will be a sure hit because of Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, which is heard often in the more familiar operas. His next picture "Blossom Time" soon to be released, ought to be worth seeing -- and hearing...
...which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind blowing the last brown leaves about the yard...
Sailors are again to be seen strolling through the Common in the evenings, bevies of children are out getting the sun on the Esplanade afternoons, there are new roadsters in the streets of Cambridge, the grass in the Yard is greener, and "Blossom Time" is back in Boston once more...
Inevitable as spring and attractive as it will ever be for sixteen year olds, "Blossom Time" is no better this year than it was last. The voices are not the best, the acting is dated, the humor is not at all subtle, and yet audiences applaud and keep flocking to the Majestic every year. Along with a group of others that belong to a golden period in stage history, "The Student Prince," "The Prince of Pilsen," "The Red Mill," and "The Chocolate Soldier," the current attraction at the Majestic has captured a wisp of sentiment in the life of Franz...