Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there is the college-musical or "Good News" type of film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson...
...whole, however, it has been the more naturally cinematic films with music that have been successful. "The Dance of Life," which is the screen edition of the play "Burlesque," is typical of this school and really set the model for it. The vogue has been so successful that such wildly inferior pictures as "Broadway Scandals," "Jazz Heaven," and "The Song of Love," while far from smash hits, seem likely to show a profit merely because they meet that popular demand for song and dance with a touch of the Laugh, Mrs. Clown, Laugh manner...
...middle of the second act very nearly everyone in the house was hissing the dark sleek villain and wildly cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
Sometime within the next few weeks the Press hopes to issue "The Traditional Ballads of Virginia", edited by A. K. Davis. These ballads, which for years have been collected by the Virginia Folk Lore Society, have been edited carefully, music has been secured...
...biennial dance held by the Harvard Union in honor of the Yale-Harvard football game will take place this evening from 10 until 3 o'clock. The music for the party will again be furnished by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a delegation from the Yale Glee Club has, as in former years, been invited to be present at the entertainment...