Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daughter of Madame Angot, on the other hand, was pitched in a wholly vivacious and amusing key. It was the first production attempted by the Musical Studio, and in consequence the original French libretto and the famed Lecocq score showed not a trace of M. Dantchenko's later, bolder and almost slashing adaptations in the name of synthesis. The complete versatility of his troupe was proved by the fact that all but one of the leading roles of the piece were played in Manhattan by "singing actors" who had had only minor parts in Lysistrata and La Perichole...
...rest of the show, big and large, isn't up to the standard set two years ago. "Flirting" and "Reporting" are the only lyrics we happened to remember, and by this time we're way off key on both of them. In so far as the plot seeks to burlesque the matrimonial difficulties of one Nooky, a newspaper reporter, it is reasonably clever, just reasonably. There was always the distinct impression that Mr. Grossman and Mr. Morgan were putting a lot more into their lines than was actually intended, Mr. Crosby, as far as we could see, made the part...
...POOR NUT?A foot race and a Phi Beta Kappa key, a girl and a boy, and a lot of college spirit. Funny, nevertheless...
This letter is of especial interest in that it has never reached the hands of Coleridge's biographers, although it contains much material which might be used as a further key to his character as shown to his friends...
...Carmack, cartoonist to the Christian Science Monitor, key-noted events in Italy last week with the caption "MUZZLE-INI" over the sketch of an Italian peasant, gagged and muzzled by a steel mask labeled "Fascism," while Il Duce, throned in the background, looked grimly...