Word: lyricized
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...French haute couture," Once upon a time-Wartime-the Journal conducted a campaign for U. S. styles by U. S. designers for U. S. women. Nothing came of it, however, and now the Journal publishes page upon page of lovely creatures tagged with French names, letterpressed in lyric strain. In the face of the Journal's scoop, its competitors professed to be unmoved. They would go on getting their patterns as before, they said, chiefly through style scouts, sketchers and copyists in Paris and other places where the famed fair exhibit. As everyone knows, there is a, giant pattern...
...great as well as the infamous have apologists. Baudelaire, who was a little of both, has had many. The greatest were Arthur Symons and James Huneker who adored him with exquisite words. The least lyric and most informative was Eugene Crépet. The latest is the sympathetic Francois Porché. He, the fashion of many easy-going raphers, did little more than rewrite in better prose and form the Crépet biography. But his dedication gracefully admits...
Craig also found that the musical structure of the two songs was identical; the melodies being the same, note for note, except to accommodate the new lyric...
Last week in Hoboken, N. J., their ''last seacoast of Bohemia," Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstarf Gribble revived The Black Crook. Next day not a newspaper blushed, no pulpit peeped. Nevertheless, Hoboken's Lyric Theatre had scarcely more than standing room, not, of course, because The Black Crook is shocking in 1929, but because it is "quaint.'' The only trouble with it is that it is entirely too quaint. In their efforts to be sure the audience understands just how funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors...
...revival at the old Lyric theatre in Hoboken is the first musical play that has appeared in recent times in which the chorus was not clad as if about to step into the shower. It is an actual although astounding fact that tights are being worn in this production, and judging from the box office receipts, this unusual procedure is being received with enthusiasm. Clothed figures dancing on the stage appear so grotesque, so hyper-sophisticated that the novelty of the sight has won the patronage of the entire smart set. It is but a matter of time until Ziegfield...