Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stark Young - "A little melodrama, brightened with the happy gaucheries of puppets in their wires and plumes and shields of brass, but delayed with a loosely threaded tale and vaguish manner of telling...
...Beach play, this picture is primarily notable for the appearance over the Hollywood horizon of Constance Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett. She shows much promise, fertile grace and panomimic adaptability. The burden of the story is well sustained on the screen, to wit, that if you but scratch the brass of the heedless young brood of today, you'll find true gold...
...Brass bar in the Senate which acts as a barrier to remind the Commons that they are not technically allowed on the floor of the upper house...
...Overture and the Nutcracker Suite, began his new season with the same pieces in the manner of a man who, interrupted, sternly repeats himself. The overture which Tschaikowsky composed to celebrate the repulse of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass band of eleven players rose to their feet behind the regular Philharmonic men, added their jubilant blare to the strains of the onetime (Imperial) national anthem of Russia which composes...
Dark and stubby as a bottle of vino pastoso is Gallo. When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band. Evening after evening the bandsmen practiced, their cheeks became sturdy to expel much wind, their fingers nimble to run upon the stops. "We will go on tour," they said. Gallo booked the tour. The band reached California. There, stranded on the golden shore had flopped an Italian opera company. Creditors were calling for the scenery, waiting at the stage door for the piano. Gallo took charge, christened...