Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Once, when the curtain went up on the second act of a Broadway musical, the cast was astounded to find itself playing to an empty house. During the intermission, the audience had learned of the sinking of the Titanic.
In 1728 a poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of...
Annual Christmas services, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, with a musical program by the University Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music, will be held in the Memorial Church, this evening at 8:15 o'clock.
The musical program will include organ preludes by Zipoli and Handel, compositions by Gallus and Peerson.
Haunting the cameras of Hollywood for the last few years has been an impish and rather repulsive face with a decided inclination towards mugging and hogging. That face is Mickey Rooney's gargoyle and exhibitionist extraordinary. True to form, Rooney has mugged and hogged his way through his latest picture...