Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries ago one John Gay, a poet, wrote a lyric play called The Beggars' Opera in which he slurred Sir Robert Walpole, British Prime Minister who had assumed the task of rescuing England from the financial crash following the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. When Gay wrote a sequel and the Duchess of Queensberry solicited subscriptions for it in the palace, right-minded Queen Caroline indignantly dismissed her from the Court...
...vaudeville bill at the Orpheum this week is better than usual. Bob Hall, who bases his work on the daring assumption that a vaudeville act can be amusing without being vulgar, is really entertaining with his extemporaneous verse and lyric philosophy. The three Tripp brothers and their female associates are better than the average comedian-dancers and the acrobats are unusually daring...
...Less lyric than his fellow-poet, Auden writes with more explicit scorn of "the old gang," dedicates his book with the forthright sentiment...
While tall, dark, quiet-spoken Arthur Schwartz was taking a degree at Columbia Law School, he was also teaching English in Manhattan's High School of Commerce. Today he occasionally helps Partner Dietz with a fractious lyric. When he made enough money in Law to give it up, he became a composer. He dislikes all opera but Wagner, favors Strauss, Schumann, Brahms, Hoagie Carmichael. When he makes enough money from his music, he intends producing straight drama. He is now writing the music for a Dietz adaptation of The Three-Cornered...
Bulk of the torch singing in the show is supplied by Joan Abbott, a pneumatic, wild-haired blonde with a cannonball delivery. She reaches her lyric zenith with a number called "Mother Eve" which seems to have Adam's wife confused with her competitor Lilith. More suitable for whistling: "Sleepy Moon...