Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October Pullman Co. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to up its sleeping-car berth rates 20% when two passengers slept together.† Organizations of traveling salesmen protested. So did theatrical producers and agents who frequently send their chorus girls on tour "doubled up" in Pullman space. Last week the I. C. C. denied the increase...
...Payne Whitney's Henning Michelsen built a brick-walled garden, gay with wisteria and flowering bulbs. Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm or a weed, but in this, the third year of the Depression, the International Flower Show took on a new seriousness...
...chorus sings and there is special cello music. Greenery runs around the choir loft and lilies stand beside the pulpit. A Deacon searches vaguely for a name to fit the face he sees. Old men fumble for a forgotten pew. Tapers gutter in the hasty draft, while a child twists his father's watch chain...
...melodious fable following a formula that has served for 25 years or more. The formula requires a lavish setting (anywhere outside the U. S.), one juvenile lead, one misunderstood ingenue, one comedian with straight man, a temptress, a torch singer (added since the War), a villain, and the more chorus girls the better...
...students describe, in songs, the girls they have met during the summer. "Hermes" Austin, played by R. B. Harrison '32, has shunned romance during vacation time, but produces a photograph which Mac and Tommy, N. P. Farquhar '32 and S. C. Dorman '33, recognize as their big "moment". A chorus of biddies sing appropriate versions of well known songs, "Servant Girls Scrub", and "Old Charles River", were ones we remembered. The conflict in the plot takes the form of a slick-haired product of the most polished clique of society, who soon becomes engaged to the girl, J. H. Pearson...