Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's vast Radio City Music Hall (movie palace), elaborate stage shows are put on by its super-goose-stepping Rockettes (chorus girls). Last week for the sixth year in a row the Music Hall staged a special Easter spectacle...
Midnight (Paramount). For the past year and a half, Paramount has been struggling with all the $120,000,000 resources at its command to produce another comedy as good as True Confession. Midnight does it. The story-about a chorus girl who lands in Paris on a rainy night with no assets but a low-cut evening dress -is not as fresh as a mountain daisy. But with Claudette Colbert as the chorus girl, Don Ameche as the taxi-driver who meets her at the station, Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore...
Alma Swensson was the prim, capable wife of a Lutheran schoolman in the little Swedish-American town of Lindsborg, Kans. (pop. 2,004). Alma Swensson loved Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, decided that her Swedish neighbors should hear it too. So she sent for the music, gathered a chorus of young people from the surrounding towns and farms, rehearsed them and let the welkin ring. That...
...Swensson's sacred musical was such a success that it went on tour, in lumber wagons along dusty Kansas roads, to the neighboring towns of Salemsburg, Salina and New Gottland. Next year they did it again. The chorus grew, acquired a permanent orchestra and conductor, hired famous soloists like Lillian Nordica, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Olive Fremstad. Lindsborg's annual Messiah became the biggest musical event in Kansas...
Donald H. Davidson '32, Louis L. Dunham '39, and Samule P. Goddard. Jr. '41 will be the principals and Frederic Peachy 3G is the director of the chorus. The music was composed specially for the production by Leonard Bornstein '33, who will conduct the orchestras...