Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boyer enthusiasts have failed to analyze her charm. The voice is cool, remote, essentially Gallic. But a bewitching personal note persists whether she sings of love or hate, boredom or jealousy. Each song has a finely chiseled pattern, an unmistakable mood built from a variety of inflections. Like Helen Morgan she likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early...
...Englishman, Frieda a German aristocrat. When they first met, he was a poverty-laden unknown of 26, she a settled matron of 31, with three children, married to a Nottingham University professor. Lawrence went to tea, to call on the professor. He met Frieda instead, and they fell in love almost at first sight. Frieda tried to have an affair with him, but he insisted on all or nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck but she stuck to her choice. Eventually her husband gave her a divorce...
Trials for "The Dilettanti," a two act farce by Thomas Love Peacock, to be presented by members of Kirkland House about Thanksgiving, it was announced at the meeting, will be held tonight at seven o'clock in the Senior Common Room. Huntington Brown '22, tutor in the Department of English, will direct the play...
Miss Grace moore's charming presence, her excellent voice, the haunting, melodious main arias of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and Bizet's "Carmen" all combine to make "One Night of Love" the very best of this year's musical films. On the merit of her voice alone Miss Moore has won a high place in the Metropolitan Opera's list of sopranos and in this, her first moving picture, she proves to be even more delightful on the screen than on the stage. She is deservedly the toast of New York, a beautiful lady with a glorious voice...
...picture. Despite these other virtues, however, the film is all Miss Moore's. The plot is simple and straightforward and has the great advantage of providing Miss Moore with the maximum opportunity for using her voice. She sings all sorts of music ranging from the modern "One Night of Love" to the difficult last act aria of Madame Butterfly all with finished technique and remarkable richness considering that she is heard not directly but by mechanical reproduction. The great success which this film has already enjoyed should convince the movie moguls that good music and capable acting can produce good...