Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cast, Not Chorus...
...attention has been called to an article on p. 56 of the April 22 issue of your magazine. Without a word of disparagement for chorus girls, I wish to correct the statement made regarding me. I have never been a member of Mr. Ziegfeld's chorus or of any other producer's. I was, however, a principal in four Ziegfeld productions, a featured performer in Arthur Hammerstein's Golden Dawn, and the leading ingénue in the same producer's Good Boy earlier in the season, when I left to again be under Mr. Ziegfeld...
Stravinsky's power of attraction lies in his reputation for being "primitive." He is "primitive" no longer, but Les Noces is a perfect example of what used to be meant by that term. Written for percussion instruments, piano, four soloists and a chorus, it was given last week under the enthusiastic baton of Philadelphia Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski...
...composition must be written in four voices, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment. The time required for its performance must not exceed six minutes...
...musical comedies are exceptionally entertaining this season, offering a wide variety of material. "Follow Thru" is perhaps the best, a grand show with no outstanding stars but talented performers, good music and an uproariously funny scene in a girl's locker room, adorned with chorus girls in little enough underclothing. Undress is also the basis for a chaste pageant in Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything...