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...wealthy bachelor, maintained silence for several days. When it became plain that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain had no intention of offering voluntary apology to His Majesty's Government in Canada for the use by a responsible Minister of the Crown of the word "hum-bug," Mr. Bennett issued an official statement. The silence of the MacDonald Government, he declared "must be construed as an endorsement . . ." of Mr. Thomas' "condemnation in terms, unusual as they are injurious, of a proposal made by myself, on behalf of the Government of Canada, and which we sincerely believe...
...when the cinema was condemned for giving authors nothing to say at all-is merely a mannerism of the studio, the picture is satisfactory. It succeeds principally because of its music, on which Romberg and Hammerstein did not have to pass judgment since they had created it. Audiences will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn...
...basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that the substance of the songs was sacrificed to the manner...
...Wahnfried during the period that followed was perpetrated the great Wagner lie, or such is the contention of Philip Button Hum and Waverly Lewis Root in a book published last week called The Truth about Wagner,* Their reference is to Mein Leben, perhaps the most elaborate autobiographical account left by an artist. Authors Hum and Root claim now that much of it is false, base their statements on a manuscript collection made by the late Hon. May Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write...
...difficult to discover what could have motivated the Jester to this attempt to joke history. Hum, perhaps the old fellow is telling us no tales after all. Perhaps the Vagabond is behind the times. People who move fences are not to be stopped by Will's "curst be he that moves my bones...