Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resurrecting a comedy dating from 414 B.C. and setting it to modern music. The Classical Club will give "The Birds" of Aristophanes in the original Greek Friday and Saturday evenings, April 21 and 22, in Sanders Theatre...
Donald H. Davidson '32, Louis L. Dunham '39, and Samule P. Goddard. Jr. '41 will be the principals and Frederic Peachy 3G is the director of the chorus. The music was composed specially for the production by Leonard Bornstein '33, who will conduct the orchestras...
Including all of the recordings of Benny's band and many rare examples of early swing, the gift will form the nucleus of a complete library of popular American music. The maestro has promised to send the Theatre Collection all his future recordings...
...Paris Opera House. Frankly sentimental, often overdone, and built about a plot which is so poorly constructed as to contain two separate climaxes, the film nevertheless succeeds by virtue of the sheer beauty of the dance, the genuine character of the dancing school atmosphere, and the well-chosen background music. Janine Charrat, as the child ballerina, has been carefully directed with a view to psychological complications by Jean Benoit-Levy, and as a result her performance in more convincing than that of her adult co-stars. Particularly colorless is Yvette Chauvire, for whose love the child arranges the crippling...
...sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall Street begwig, is constantly funny, and Deanna herself, in the course of straightening out her sisters' affaires du coeur, upsets the conventional applecart on many a delightful occasion. Add to this the music--which, this time, included "The Last Rose of Summer"--and the whole is well-worth the holdover which, we have on good authority, is scheduled...