Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loosely adapted from Watters & Hopkins' play, Burlesque, which ran on Broadway in 1927, Swing High, Swing Low somehow fails to give the spectacle of a wind instrument expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard...
...college education is the inalienable right of every individual, like a free press or a free dental clinic. It found its purest expression in the program of the late Huey Long who was going to make new colleges spring forth full-armed so that "soon nobody will even hear of Harvard and Louisiana State...
...York have each heard Berg's last work, the Violin Concerto, performed by the Boston Symphony during the past fortnight. The reviews in both cities have been notably lukewarm, and a general impression of too much saccharine seems to have been received. It now remains for Cambridge to hear it in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening and to add its own judgment. The Concerto aroused considerable comment abroad, partly because of its romantic origin and partly as a result of the controversial nature of the work itself which is a product of a leading light in the Schonbergian school. Also...
...died, and then it was drily added, "--like his novels should have died too." Richardson was supposed to be pathetic, but if Mr. Chandler couldn't be more pathetic than that guy, he'd quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly irregular Tristram Shandy...
These two gentlemen are likely to receive much more sympathetic treatment from the outspoken Texan. Unorthodox themselves, they may even find a kindred spirit in their unorthodox apologist. Come, you vagabonds, come to study the Cowboy Professor. You are guaranteed to hear shrewd perception of literary values which the spontaneous language delightfully accentuates...