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...most infectious sound in the picture. Sam (Junior Coghlan) has a flat Irish face, eyes that narrow pleasantly in anger; the short right with which he starts his fight with Penrod is better timed than Carnera's (see p. 22). Good shots: nice little Georgie Bassett doing a minuet at the birthday party while Penrod and Sam are fighting upstairs; the In-or-In Club preparing to initiate a new member. Bad shot: Penrod whittling with his forefinger on the back of his knife blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have rooted objections to sentimentalized history. Good shot : Arliss dancing a minuet with Betsy (Doris Kenyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...list includes numbers from ten different great composers, thus enabling music lovers to enjoy the greatest variety of entertainment. The offerings run the gamut of musical compositions from the deep overture of "Tannhauser" of the immoral Wagner to the lighter melody of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and Boccherini's Minuet. The program is as follows: Polonaise Chopin "Barber of Seville" overture Rossini Minuet Boccherini "Madame Butterfly" Fantasia Puccini "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg "Valse Trieste" Sibelius "Tannhauser" overture Wagner "Girl Crazy" selections Gershwin "Artist Life" Walty Strauss Hungarin March Berlioz

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIETY OF NUMBERS OFFERED AT BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERT | 5/12/1931 | See Source »

...grandson, Louis XV. The court painting of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century is represented in its chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary portraits. Watteau's paintings "Minuet" and "Fete Champetre" show clearly the lightness and frivolity of the court art. The advent of the neo-classic expression in painting subsequent to the Revolution and prevalent during the Napoleonic era, is represented by the large portrait of a lady by David...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 30 PAINTINGS OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL ARE EXHIBITED AT FOGG | 2/17/1931 | See Source »

Overture to the Ode for St. Cecelia's Day, for strings and oboes, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B minor, for strings and flutes. Rondeau, Sarabande, Bouree I, Bouree II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Badinarie. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from the Symphony number two, in D. by Hadyn: Adagio-Allegro; Menuetto Trio; Allegro spirituoso...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY TO GIVE PROGRAM AT UNION | 12/5/1929 | See Source »

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