Word: lyricism
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...line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...
Short, thick, with a curly nose and an eye like a new horsechestnut; coarse-mouthed and lyric-handed, a good hater, a bad lover, a composer who made his reputation as another man would make his point in a dice game, Pietro Mascagni. It was in Leghorn, Italy, that his father baked bread, but the rumor that Pietro helped in the family trade has never been verified. Indeed, the boy Mascagni refused from the first to soil his hands with flour; he seemed to have an illimitable capacity for roistering, in reward for which, when he was sixteen, his father...
...Lyric-writer Bolton, with P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern, co-wrote among other musical comedies: Very Good Eddie; Oh, Boy; Oh, Lady, Lady...
Bermuda Railway The Bermudas, isles of onions, Easter lilies, lyric grottoes and healing sunshine, has never heard the honking rattle of an automobile or the clank of a chuffing train. But Great Bermuda, the largest of the islands is 14 miles long, 1 mile wide. Hack horses and bicycles simply cannot keep up the pace, either of today's onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet...
...Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Bland-Laus Rumanian Rhapsody Euesco Dance of the Priestesses of Dagon, from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Boston Saxophone Orchestra a. The Lost Chord Sullivan-Laus b. Hawaiian Waltz, "Kilama Wai-lana" Lua-Kaili c. Indian Love Lyric, "Temple Bells" Finden d. Fast asleep in Poppyland (Chinese Story) Gay Ballet of the Hours, from La Gio-conda" Ponchielli Prelude No. 6 Chopin-Jacchia Indian War Dance Skilton