Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forty-Second Street succeeds, it will not be because of its plot, which is the old one about a pretty chorus girl getting her chance to star and making good at the opening performance. The formula works out badly in this case because it is handled with cumbersome efforts to achieve atmosphere and because it delays almost indefinitely the best part of the picture, the show-within-a-show which the producers were ingenious enough to call, not Forty-Second Street, but Pretty Lady. The dance routines by Busby Berkeley are a good deal like the ones...
...give two weeks of opera with singers imported from New York and Chicago, San Francisco last autumn opened the first municipal opera house in the U. S., one of the world's finest music theatres (TIME, Oct. 17). The chorus was composed of local amateurs. Orchestramen were borrowed from the San Francisco Symphony. The whole enterprise was characteristic of the audacity with which Impresario Gaetano Merola rounded up a San Francisco Opera Association ten years ago, collected membership dues running from $50 to $100 a head and proceeded to put on ambitious performances with rehearsals so sketchy...
...first try--outs for the eight or ten leading parts, the various minor roles, and the famed chorus, are to be held on Wednesday, March 15, with all members of the club being eligible for parts. Theodore Viehman, well--known New York director has been secured to direct this production, and as has been the custom in the past there are two acts, involving many different scenes...
...Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought...
...sequences equally powerful. There is the scene in the London theatre during the Boer War. Some of those in the audience have sons or husbands "dying by inches" in Mafeking while a relief force is on its way in an attempt to raise the seige. The ballet and chorus are reaching their height when the manager stumbles out onto the stage and stops the performance to make the announcement that "Mafeking has been relieved." Pandemonium breaks loose. The effect is one of the greatest climaxes in motion picture history...