Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Morris Gershwin, 62, father of Composer George and Lyric Writer Ira Gershwin, at various times a designer of women's shoes, bookmaker, proprietor of cigar stores, billiard parlors, Turkish baths, restaurants; after long illness; in New York...
...music will make climactic use of the tumtum beats conceived by Playwright Oneill. There will be a few lyric moments at least, when Jones calls on the Lord to save him. No one would predict the rest last week. Composer Gruenberg wrote his Jazziest and Enchanted Isle in ultramodern vein but the score he wrote for Jack & the Beanstalk (TIME, Nov. 30) was as simple and childlike as John Erskine's libretto...
...which Mr. Yushny has to wind up from time to time, called "Souvenir Lowere de Suisse." Miss Isa Kremer, a local Diseuse, appears to please audiences most with an astonishing repertory of songs, beginning with a French lullaby, skipping blithely through an Italian street ballad and an old English lyric to end up with the impersonation of a Kentucky mountain woman sewing as she sings. And although it has been knocking about the U. S. for the past winter, The Blue Bird's chief asset, exuberance, appears undiminished...
Baltimore last week was cleaning up the Lyric Theatre preparatory to the Metropolitan's annual spring visit. Clevelanders were trying to earn tickets in an Ask-Me-About-Opera contest sponsored by the Plain Dealer. Rochester socialites were getting out their top-hats, arranging dinner parties for the one night (April 25) when the Metropolitan would come there with pretty Lily Pons, its leading attraction...
...German Lyric Poetry of the 19th Century," Assistant Professor Burkhard, Germanic Lecture Room...