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...program for the "Pops" concert tonight follows:: 1. "Over There" Cohan 2. Overture to "Preciosa" Weber 3. March, "Lambre et Meuse" Planquette-Turlet 4. Largo, "From the New World" Symphony Dvorak Intermission 5. Suite, "Children's Corner" Debussy-Caplet a. Quincho's Lullaby b. Serenade for the Doll c. Golliwog's Cake Walk 6. Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet 7. Berceuse Slave Neruda-Jacchia 8. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Intermission 9. Fantasia, "Cavaleria Rusticana" Mascagni 10. Waltz, "Missouri" 11. Hungarian Dance No. 1 Brahms
...swampy everglades of Florida, the producers have found a new musical comedy, one which has not lost the untrammelled bloom of youth. By the very delicacy of its charm, it has escaped the praise of those who applaud only the more obvious successes. It comes unheralded by George M. Cohan or Arthur Hammerstein, for as yet it has not attained that mature development that such prominence demands. "Baby Blue" is a dainty, fragile thing with a few sweet songs and a great deal of light buoyant humor. After a great many suggestive comedies and heavy revues of the Winter season...
Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...
George M. Cohan in a special article written for the Chicago Tribune has shown unsuspected generosity and devotion to Harvard. Discussing Harvard's loss of Professor Baker, this inveterate joker turns tragedy into farce, and concludes: "If there is anything I can do to help Harvard.... I'll be only too delighted to hop on to Cambridge once or twice a week with my dancing shoes and give the boys buck and wing lessons...
...dream of a new day when, instead of concentrating in Anthropology, he may throw his whole soul into the Technique of Musical Reviews: when, instead of Chemistry or Physics under Professor Obtuse, he may satisfy the science requirement by taking Analysis of Form (laboratory course) under Professor George M. Cohan...