Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chorus of seven drunks will be one of the most remarkable features of this, the forty-seventh annual production of the Harvard dramatists. According to gleanings garnered from the sparse utterances of the all too secretive members of the club, the inebriates bear a symbolic resemblance to the seven heroes of the Argonauts, who as everyone will remember, played rather prominent roles in the tale of Jason and the much-to-be-desired Golden Fieece...
Stand Up and Cheer (Fox) contains a penguin dressed to resemble Jimmy Durante; a song called "I'm Laughin'"; a grand finale parade, showing Hollywood chorus boys and girls waving their arms in time to ah anthem called "We're Out of the Red." None of these is any better than it sounds...
Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...
Virgil Thomson, composer of the rhythmic pattern score of "A Bride for the Unicorn" the Harvard Dramatic Club production, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to take personal charge of the chorus and orchestra for the production. Thomson's big work has been the composition of the musical score for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts." The score, dedicated to the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Eloquently set forward by its sponsors as ". . . boiling over with sizzling, syncopating rhythm . . .", the offering at the Park Theater is not of pristine quality. The chorus is as usual but another testimonial to the proverb that beauty, unlike fine wine or Dunhill briars, does not improve with age and constant handling. Let this be no deterrent, however, to those who view life with the comic spirit, for such will find the entertainment eminently laughable. And since no smoking is allowed at the Park Theater, the stage is always clearly visible...