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...Parade was fine for a couple of reels until the old hokum began to stick out. This picture is like The Big Parade in the way some of the battle scenes are handled, but except when mechanical explosions give it energy it is an entirely unreal lyric about a Southern girl who had two sweethearts, one of whom turned out to be a coward. He was drunk when the bugle blew, and when she told him to get out and join the ranks he belched in her pretty face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...coach of the Hasty Pudding productions, and now musical director for the Vitaphone Corporation has been attached and a court injunction obtained forbidding Warner Brothers to pay Silvers any salary. Silvers is charged by Craig of having stolen the music that he wrote in 1925 and called the new lyric. "It's Up to You". The new lyric was published in sheet music form and copyrighted by Irving Berlin. It was also used in the Vitaphone production "Weary River", which it will be recalled was at the University Theatre some two months ago. It was here that Craig first obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILFERED PUDDING SONG SUIT BEGINS | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

Both Bowdoin prizes, for the best translations, in Latin and in Greek, submitted to the Department of Classics, were won by John Primott Redcliffe Maud '29, of London, England. Each of these prizes was $50. The John Osborne Sargent prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace was awarded to Gerald Frank Else '29, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Honorable Mention went to David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson '32, of Tuckahoe, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARD OF NINE BOWDOIN PRIZES IS ANNOUNCED | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

...telephones the office for the key to the next room. The other tunes a violin, giving the excuse: "Not enough time to practice at home." Libby Holman, that singing girl who improves so tremendously on Helen Morgan, has a full-throated Harlem sonata, "Moanin' Low." Most of the lyrics were written by nimble-witted Howard Dietz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's publicity man. His "theme" song: Hammacher-Schlemmer* (I Love You). The Grand Street Follies have always depended largely on protean Albert Carroll, impish imitator of the grimaces and posturings of famed actresses. In this latest edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Four U. S. singers will make their Metropolitan debuts: 1) Santa Biondo, lyric soprano, born in Palermo, brought to New Haven, Conn., as a child, lately a member of the San Carlo and American Opera Companies; 2) Eleanor La Mance, Jacksonville mezzo-soprano, well known in small Italian opera houses; 3) Gladys Swarthout, Kansas City mezzo-soprano, formerly of the Chicago Opera; 4) Edward Ransome, tenor, born in Canada, U. S. citizen, known in Italy as Edoardo di Renzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Line-up | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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