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Religion by radio is usually a routine medley of sermons, prayers, hymns, sacred music by soloists and choristers. Occasionally it is colorful, as when a Eucharistic Congress or the dedication of a cathedral is broadcast. Religious talks, like those of Los Angeles' Rev. Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler and Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, are often embarrassing and distasteful to churchmen. Last fortnight, for the second time, religion went on the air purely & simply as news. When National Broadcasting Co. decided to build up a "Lowell Thomas of Religion," it went straight to young Dr. Stanley Hoflund High...
...well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody, in which the metropolis is typified by insistent rivet-noises; and a new Rumba which George Gershwin completed last month...
Show Boat does not begin with a noisy medley of the song hits to accompany the customers' march down the aisles, the clatter-bang of seats. Its prelude establishes the play's mood, introduces definite themes, just as Wagner introduced themes in his preludes to develop them later on. The people in Show Boat have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver...
...situation is really more serious than the paragraph above would indicate. Dangerous accidents are happily rare, but they do happen, and can be partly attributed to the confusion caused by a medley of traffic lanes. Around the subway kiosk the constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point...
...Blue Bird (S. Hurok, producer) is a medley of Russian vaudeville under the droll and genial mastership of Yascha Yushny. It is the sort of thing that moonfaced Nikita Balieff and Morris Gest first brought to the U. S. in 1922 as the Chauve-Souris and does not suffer greatly by this comparison. Mr. Yushny is much the same sort of master of ceremonies as Balieff. Witness the introduction he gives to a Boyar dance number, concluding with the sly information that he did the scenery for that act himself. When the curtain parts a plain velvet drop is revealed...