Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traits into polished Chinese formulas. When he sits down at an important conference with Chinese statesmen, he begins by saying (in Chinese): "Well, boys, have I told you the one about the traveling salesman and the old farmer?" He can sing Chinese songs, too, and play the pipa (lute...
...most of his life in government sinecures, under the patronage of art-loving, fun-loving King Gustavus III. When the King was murdered. Bellman lost his last job, was put in debtors' prison, got out just in time for a last party before he died. Bellman played the lute, consciously or unconsciously drew upon Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti for melodies. He seldom wrote a song down, let his friends transcribe, collect and publish part of his output. The "Last of the Troubadours" sang of tavern life, of trips to the country, of a ludicrous funeral procession, of his friends Movitz...
...Morrisson '38 Student Songs of the XVII Century, from "Studentenschmauss," (1626) Schein Bacchanale, from "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Canon: O du eselhafter Martin Mozart Men of Hariech Welsh Folk Song Harvard Tarantella Randall Thompson (Composed for and dedicated to the Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale Thomas G. Shepard Shall I, Wasting in Despair? Old English...
Pennies from Heaven (Columbia) is a textbook example of the oldest adage in cinemaking: Nothing ruins a picture more effectively than too many good ideas. Best idea wasted is the character of Larry (Bing Crosby), a jailbird minstrel whose most prized possession is a 13th-Century lute, in an elaborate routine, involving a letter from a condemned man to Patsy Smith (Edith Fellowes), orphan of a murdered father. "Pennies from Heaven-the coins tossed down to him from tenement windows-are the currency with which Larry undertakes to support Patsy and her Grandpa (Donald Meek...
There is one moment of real magic when Larry is singing So Do I, best of the John Burke-Arthur Johnston ballads, in a dim courtyard, strumming his lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies from Heaven idea. He set his characters to making a haunted house into a night club, then switched to a carnival background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy...