Word: duets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easing back in their red leather chairs one afternoon last week, homesick Senators yawned and dozed through a drearisome duet by their reading clerk and the Vice President of the U. S. Twice as fast and half as intelligible as a train announcer, the clerk rattled out the amendments by which the Senate Finance Committee had revamped the House's tax bill into something more suitable to Franklin Roosevelt. Whenever the clerk's voice dropped, John Nance Garner mumbled: ''Without objection, adopted...
...cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized roster of dialect leading men. Best sounds: the Love Duet, from Act I of La Boheme, in which Michael Bartlett outsings Miss Moore...
...Chamber of Horrors" and "Kidnapped"; Kirstein is obviously strongly influenced by Spender and Auden, and that is a bad sign, one may venture to suggest, for there is no use or point in duplicating one's contemporaries, even if it seems heroic to join a swelling chorus when a duet or trio will quite suit the purposes...
...writes herself, showing her surrounded by ineffectual admirers. In Goin' to Town, she has seven of these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
...next to last concert on the winter term list, the Instrumental Clubs will perform tonight at 8.30 o'clock at the Milton Club. Featured on the program is a banjo duet by Edward R. Sargent '36 and Franklin P. Whitbeck...