Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...
Swept with enthusiasm, a chorus of ladies followed Mrs. Gandhi to all the toddy shops of Jalalpur, singing sad and doleful songs of the evils of drink...
...happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played last week by Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff. The woman and the handsome stranger who taunt him were mimes. For the rest there was a chorus (17 artist-students from the Curtis Institute of Music) which chanted and wailed in Greek fashion. And important as either principals or chorus were lights. For Arnold Schönberg, being a painter as well as a composer, has a passion for color. He conceived his score with fading and blazing...
...life of Gossipist Harden a report which read much like an oldtime Harden-published gossip paragraph-married first Maude Sullivan, Chicago artists' model; won $10,000 for alienation of affections from his friend, William T. Hoops, who later wed Maude Sullivan Harden; married (second) Mabel Doris Mercer, chorus girl, who divorced him and later married (and was divorced from) Sebastian Spering Kresge. cheap-store tycoon; married (third) Lyla Meeker who brought suit for separation, then was reconciled though they lived apart. He left a note expressing fear that she was planning to divorce...
...Director has, moreover, had the good sense to refrain from dragging in an attractively nude but meaningless chorus. And in addition to this he has taken care to emphasize the most atractive points of his stars so that at the end one is given a most tremendous impression of their capabilities. But out of it all one fact remains, the plot was only fair, the characterization was caricature, the music not startling but it was Janet Gaynor and consequently an excellent movie...