Word: duets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made the opera singer a stout, pretentious clown, the thief & friends ridiculous prototypes of U. S. gangsters, the hero's creditors a crew of rascally lickspittles. He pokes fun at the opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased to discover that Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments in the coat-chase through the conversation of two sleepy...
...ensemble work. Undaunted by the Presence of his superior officers, Tibbett pursues Miss Moore at a ball given in her honor by her fiance, the Governor, and in consequence is sent to an outpost where the men are noted for slaughtering their officers. At regular intervals, in solo and duet, princess and lieutenant emit the show's celebrated and familiar song-hit, "Lover, Come Back to Me,'' singing it probably better than it has ever been sung before. Grace Moore is not a polished actress, but she is an unusually handsome and healthy looking young woman. Lawrence...
Handel: Passacaglia (Columbia, $2). A virtuosi duet by Violinist Albert Sammons and Violaist Lionel Tertis...
...singing in B flat but I'm a mile off." Thus waggishly, but with literal truth, spoke one member of a vaudeville duet team in Schenectady, N. Y., last week...
...Bells of St. Swithins", with charm and a certain amount of delicate emotion. Mr. Evans' baritone leads excellently the chorus of "Brown October Ale". Though neither Mr. Frazier nor Miss Steck, in the leading roles, possesses a voice of such quality as these, their singing is competent, and their duet "Come Dreams So Bright" is one of the perennial hits. In the best of the comedy songs, "The Tinkers' Song", Mr. Danforth and his disguised foresters hammer, pantomime, and whistle with considerable versatility and enthusiasm. Fully half of the musical numbers are sung by the full company, and so reach...