Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education, a chorus of men and women in the School but open to all members of the University, and to capable persons not members of the University, will be organized in connection with a course given by G. W. Woodworth '24, instructor in Music, Education M73-74, Singing in Schools and Communities. This chorus will meet on Wednesday evenings and will be directed by Mr. Woodworth and by students in the course. It will provide practice in conducting for the students in the course and will offer all its members study...
...City Blues (Warner). A house detective foraging in a linen closet for his bottle of gin ... chorus girls in a hotel lobby to meet a friend's friend ... the elderly lady who sits alone in speakeasies, puffing a long cigaret holder ... a paper bag in the arm of a bootlegger, asleep on a sofa waiting to be paid . . . paraphernalia for a party, scattered across the top of a hotelroom table. . . . Shots like these, because they have the authentic flavor of one type of night-life in Manhattan, are what make Big City Blues an interesting picture...
...knows more about how theatrical people talk than he does about writing plays. His picture is really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus...
...wander around among the fairies?" "That's up to you-lead your own life." He also has one or two opportunities to dance. Dorothy Stone and Doris Patston dance too. So do Messrs. Royston and Collins. All dance well, individually, in pairs and in threesomes. The chorus directed by Merriel Abbott dances better than nine white choruses out of ten. There is a great deal of dancing, but not quite enough. If everybody in it danced all the time Smiling Faces would be a fine show...
...whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with her rôle?that of Miss Davies' friend in the Follies. The story concerns the quick jump of the two young ladies from an East Side tenement to swank apartments on Park Avenue. First Miss Dove gets into the chorus, permits herself to be kept. Miss Davies follows in short order, is set up in style befitting a "regally gilded queen." Montgomery, once provider for Miss Dove, falls in love with Miss Davies. The frequent quarrels of Miles Davies & Dove reach a climax when Miss Dove intentionally lets slip Miss...