Word: duet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mind Young through Sport" will be the joint topic of the four speakers, although it is understood that Harvard's former track star and the man who found Dick Harlow will approach the subject in a slightly different manner from the three specialists, slugger Lou and the racquet-minded duet of Mrs. Moody and Davis...
...Club (North Hollywood Branch) put on its second Breakaway Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned music hopped...
...which lifts the feud between the Kirbys and the Vanderhofs to the plane of that between the Montagues and Capulets. By the time Grandpa Vanderhof and Banker Kirby (Edward Arnold) eventually symbolize their inevitable meeting of minds by sitting down together to play Polly-Woily-Doodle on harmonicas. their duet affords some of the emotional impact of a Beethoven symphony...
...doubles encounters turned out to be thrillers, as the top duet of Hauck and Lowman and the bottom dunce of Captain Alvah Sulloway and John "Sarah" Palfrey won out in marathon matches...
...between science and genius," and so we pass over "Don Giovanni" to consider "Der Rosenkavalier." This opera combines expertly three phases of Strauss's genius, his dramatic flare in the overture, many a charming Vicnneso waltz and pure Mozart-like melodies. The trio for female voices, which foreshadows the duet for soprano and alto in "Arabella," has been ranked with the famous quintet from Wagner's "Dic Meistersinger." And the entrance of the Rosenkavalier in the second act, clad all in white, is one of the most brilliant scenes in all opera...