Word: chorused
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Master builders came next to the White House with an impressive chorus of plans and projects...
...program of the vocal club, whose selections will be interspersed throughout the concert, will include "Glorious Forever", by Rachmaninoff: "Chorus of Bacchantes", by Gounod, from "Philemon and Bancus"; "Longshoreman"; "Schneider's Band"; "Johnny Harvard"; and "Old Man Noah". The Mandolin Club has planned to present Brahms' "Waltz in A Major"; "Frasquita", by Franz Lehar; and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore". The pieces offered by the Banjo Club will be the "Veritas March", by Densmore, and a medley of the various college football songs. The Gold Coast Orchestra will play the "Russian Fantasy", arranged by Lange...
...film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson. You can see that the audiences make no demand for any super-ingenuity...
...about an arrogant ventriloquist who could only be human when talking through the mouth of his dummy and finally became so jealous of the little figure that he broke it and felt himself a murderer. Since the story belonged legitimately enough backstage there had to be a series of chorus numbers, with the result that the drama was entirely submerged. Most screen plots, of course, are not worth much to a shot...
...handling of the chorus scenes is outstanding. Even the uncolored half of the picture, especially the dance accompanying "Singing in the Rain", makes effective use of shadows and silhouettes; and the closing scenes, employing an enlarged screen, are among the few good bits of technicolor the movies have thus far offered. "In Orange Blossom Tinte", with its beauty of color and brilliant shots from strange angles, particularly makes one realize that artistic photography did not altogether pass out with silent pictures...