Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact there is no scenery at all, the coloured orchestra and some black drapes forming the entire backdrop which does not change throughout. The show depends entirely upon a group of half a dozen or more principals, of whom Ethel Waters is the leading one. There is no dancing chorus but Cecil Mack's negro choir makes up for the lack of this by rendering several typical negro-spirituals...
...Lovers' Lane in the outskirts of Norwalk, Conn., lived Theodore Humbert, a chorus man, and his friend Edward Charles Chapman, an interior decorator. When Chapman thought his heart disease would be fatal he deeded to Humbert a $95,000 estate. He recovered, planned to take Humbert to England to claim the property. Last week Humbert was found in the cottage on Lovers' Lane with his skull crushed in. Next day police found Chapman dead in a bathtub in a Boston hotel. Beside him were six empty veronal bottles. In his hand was a photograph of Humbert...
Free For All is a tuneful musicomedy presented by smart Producers Schwab & Mandel (Good News, America's Sweet-heart), with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Schwab, melodies by Richard A. Whiting. There is no chorus. As a result, the uninterrupted libretto may pall if you think about it too much, but there is good music, a little lively dancing and a dozen pleasant faces...
...felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly with their farm products. From the South cottonseed oil men joined the chorus of complaint. This outcry against the Philippines as an agricultural competitor was centred on Congress. There the representatives of the different groups coalesced, formed a sizeable bloc in favor of casting the Philippines loose for the prime purpose of putting them outside the U. S. tariff wall.- Reality or Reflection...
...words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party...