Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Steps Out (Columbia) is a Central European romp in which Soprano Grace Moore sings six songs from an old Fritz Kreisler operetta called Cissy. One of the songs, Madly in Love, became more celebrated than it deserved when Miss Moore, who sang it in peasant garb while milking a cow, flounced off the Columbia lot vowing never to return. Said she: "I don't mind milking a cow or two in the course of a day, but also to sing all day is something else again. I have another public besides that one out in Hollywood...
...hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria with the romantic Elizabeth of Bavaria. Miss Moore is not in quite the best of voice but the picture has a very pleasant...
...roses, let your blossoms grace...
Some of T. S. Eliot's most famed verses were obviously written before he attained a state of grace, were not likely to inculcate any comfortable doctrine into Anglo-Catholic minds. But after looking through this collection readers could see that Poet Eliot had let himself be guided by his artistic conscience: the book contained many a passage that the Archbishop of Canterbury would not read from the pulpit. Sample: The Hippopotamus, generally taken as a satire on the Church...
...Harvard-Yale pole match Saturday bids fair to be an outstanding intercollegiate encounter. With Skiddy von Stade. Jr. playing No. 3 positions for Harvard against the Eli captain, Peter Grace horsehair and bits of wood are expected to fly down at Yale...