Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team-of dancing partners, a story that can he interesting only for its digressions. In this first picture made by a new and technically competent producing company, the digressions are brightly filled with shadows borrowed from vaudeville and the legitimate stage and set in motion by the music of Waring's Pennsylvanians, one of the best dance-orchestras in the world. Best tune...
...budget speech -the speech on which prophets have declared that Britain's general elections would turn-was delivered to a packed and eager House of Commons, last week, by the empire's most amazing statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Journalism, dare-devil soldiering, music, history-book-scrivening,* politics, dabbing with oil paints - these are a few of the careers of Winston, who entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer and four years...
...royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing to play...
Said he: "There is a smelly situation here. Some one with courage has to face the music and clean house. . . . I'm not going to mention names of my friends in this. I showed them the smoke. It's up to the A. A. U. to find the fire...
Kansas City's music boom has burst. The chubby little girl with .the high, bright voice whose sensational opera debut three years ago made the country Kansas City-conscious, decided last week to go back to the farm, to sing no more. Encouraged by the mother who had chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact...