Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sell out a hall of Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week in Manhattan was as tall as Basso Feodor Chaliapin and brawnier. His voice was big and mellow. He sang simply. He was Paul Robeson, athlete-actor-baritone. Last week's was his first U. S. appearance after a three-year absence in Europe...
...soft and mellow style which is perfectly suited to his subject, Stark Young has again portrayed the aristocracy of the old South and its inability to adjust itself to the new commercial expansion. The plot of the novel, what little of it there is, is centered around a conflict of two strong wills, the father Major Hugh Dandridge, the last of the old southern aristocracy in the district of Le Flore, and his son John, a Princeton graduate...
...Manhattan, Artur Bodansky and the Friends of Music gave intelligent performance to Haydn's Seasons, a mellow, pastoral oratorio unheard in the U. S. for nearly 25 years. The evening before, the Conductorless Symphony (including nine women), introduced its second season...
...Friend the King. William Faversham is a vestige of that genial era, not long past, when certain actors with favorable features had but to smile manfully, lift their eyebrows and bring down the house. These popular fellows appeared in mellow legends which were just militaristic enough to permit them to wear epaulets, but not belligerent enough to ruffle their hair. One of the playwrights who devised their handsome parades is A. E. Thomas. Actor Faversham and Playwright Thomas are now responsible for this play about a King who retained his throne through the clever beneficence of a U. S. dowager...
...centenarian is played by Otis Skinner, who is himself now 71. Through five decades of trouping he has acquired a mellow patina which enhances his interpretation of one not unlike himself in wisdom and sweetness of age. Sitting in his royally red chair, he pokes with his cane and his innuendos, rumbles and whispers, enchants his family with the great white droop of his head, the flash of his cavernous eyes. In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him. The children are never...