Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these things as they may entertainment quite up to the standard of past Pudding ventures is in the present offering. The jokes are above average, the music is easily normal, and if the dancing is thoroughly awkward, why just remember that you can't have everything...
...Music in May. All the traditions of the once extremely popular comic opera are fulfilled in this importation from Vienna. There is a Bavarian prince who falls in love with the daughter of an umbrella maker. There are plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...
...flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...
...course some well-meaning person smuggled a single bunch of violets onto the bier, last week, and they were not disturbed. But there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...
...Buffalo, five policemen were needed last week to handle traffic on the roads near Pine Hill cemetery. Reason: ghastly-ghostly voices and music were issuing from a tomb. Amateur sleuths at length discovered that the horrid sounds, refracted by the marble mausoleum, were echoes from a radio loudspeaker in front of a distant shop...