Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrapped in waxed paper and served up on a papier mache platter. Son of a socialite Washington insurance broker, Leroy Goff Jr. is 30, small, light-haired, blue-eyed, fresh-cheeked, amiable, handsome. At Princeton (Class of 1926) he had the peculiar distinction of being both a Triangle Club chorus girl and a varsity letterman in lacrosse. After college he went into insurance brokerage in Philadelphia, settled in Ithan on the Main Line. He joined Merion Cricket and Union League clubs, raised dogs as a hobby. By March 1933 Mr. Goff had acquired 24 assorted dogs and lost considerable money...
Friday Evening, May 11 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssonn *"Madame Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini *Nocturne: "Festivals" Debussy *Overture to "Rieuzi" Wagner Chorus and Orchestra: The Snow Elgar Carnaval Fourdrain *"The Fortune Teller," Selection Herbert "People of Vienna" Ziehrer *First Hungarian Dance Brahras Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Wednesday Evening, May 9 *Procession of Bacchus, from the Ballet "Sylvia" Delibes *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Londonderry Air
Twenty Million Sweethearts (First National). Like We're Not Dressing (see below), this is a casual musicomedy in which there are no chorus girls and most of the songs are allotted to one young man. It makes tentative gestures at satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...toms, kettledrums, triangles, and various other percussion instruments will accompany the chantings of the Greek chorus, which is to consist of two groups of eight singers (members of the Giee Club in everyday life.) The music, or "rhythmic score" as it is known in this instance, has been written especially for "A Bride for the Unicorn" by Virgil Thomson, a rising star among young American musicians...