Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Register has a title which sounds as if the play might be a searching social document by Channing Pollock. Actually it is a comedy of bad manners, adapted from Anita Loos's But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Heroine is a chorus girl who has a heart of gold even though she seldom wears enough tinsel to cover it. She is loved by a rich boy who takes her to meet his family in their palatial home, or what would pass for a palatial home to a Columbia Burlesque audience. It is complete with funny German butler who makes faces...
...Harlem, Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway admitted that Songwriter Irving Mills (white) had written the words to the verse of the Negro song, "Minnie the Moocher," but proudly insisted he wrote all the words to the chorus himself. The chorus...
...people really talked the way Authoress Roberts' country characters do, they would either be hired for an antique chorus or put in an asylum. No gramophonic realist but an artist who digs for buried treasure, Authoress Roberts makes her Kentucky farmers' speech into the kind of lyricized dialect which the late John Millington Synge dug for and found among his Aran Islanders...
...McIlhenny '33, and Oscar Sutermeister '32, is making plans for the entertainment to be presented following the dinner. Although a definite program has not been drawn up as yet, tentative arrangements have been made to include music in the form of an orchestra and of a male chorus, as well as some dramatics...
There are some Freshmen who wish to study from time to time and the addition of a chorus of Reinhardts to the rumble of subways, street, cars, automobiles, a ND bells is distracting. Since it encompasses the entire Freshman class, the Yard may be considered a place of preparation for the upper classes. But that is no justification for the turning of the Yard into a preparatory school...