Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florence H. Leeds, a red-haired chorus girl whom Mrs. Stillman showed during the first suit to be the mother of two of Mr. Stillman's children. She was reported as having married a John Rosseau Metcalfe in London two years...
...revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...
Dinning in President Hoover's ears since the adjournment of Congress last March has been a chorus of shouts for him to DO SOMETHING about Depression. The American Legion petitioned him to call a non-political White House conference of Business & Industry. Insurgent Republican legislators insisted that only a special session of Congress would do. Chief shouter for such a session has been Wisconsin's persistent young Senator La Follette. Memorials from religious societies have also poured in upon the White House requesting the President to summon the Senate to ratify the World Court protocol. Last week President...
...through the village. Last week's program did not differ materially from those of the past: cantatas were sung the first day, the great B Minor Mass the second. The capable soloists were the same as last year's. Players from the Philadelphia Orchestra again assisted the chorus, nearly all amateurs from Bethlehem and environs who, since October, have rehearsed, imitating Director Wolle's simple devotion to the music of Bach...
...some of 'em as black as coal. . . ."-thus honest Yokel Mykelborne holding forth in the taproom to his fellow-worthies, who listened chopfallen, goggle-eyed. Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental pastoral melodrama you will remember from Author Bullett's book. The story opens in prehistoric England, in the "squat" (hut-settlement) of Koor. Koor, hitherto invincible patriarch, is aging, and the young hunters are beginning to mutter to each other. Soon the inevitable happens...