Word: musy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connecticut Yankee (Fox). Mark Twain's story was made into an effective farce in silent cinema days, starring Harry Myers; then it became a successful musi-comedy. But not until its present metamorphosis into a talking picture has a form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire...
...regarded as funny. In 1980, however, musical comedies will still be full of jokes that have been doing service for years; songs will not have improved; heroines will be coy and leading men pompous. These suggestions spectators will absorb from De Sylva, Brown & Henderson's mechanically amusing musi-comedy. A theme which has been useful to H. G. Wells and Jules Verne they have executed in the fantasies of a tired vaudeville booking-agent. Just Imagine is much too long, and in spite of all that Marjorie White and John Garrick can do, it is boring. Best sequence...
...world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down a set of stairs, he is certainly the foremost practitioner of that routine. The later or developed Robinson period is probably now at its zenith. No longer does the dancer depend on gyrations...
...small, eager mind." After she was graduated from St. Mary's Academy (South Bend, Ind.) in 1876, she took to the light operatic stage, appearing in La Mascotte, Fatinitza, Erminie, The Mikado, H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance. During this period she married Harry Brown, musi-comedian, by whom she had a son who died at the age of four. About that time she left the stage, joining the staff of the Daily News in 1890. Her second husband, one Frank Howard Buck, divorced her in 1916 on the grounds of cruelty. Most fantastic occurrence of her life...
...unlike Ernest Bramah's tales of Kai Lung, in its lacquered language of excessive pseudo-Oriental politeness, unlike them in the faintly lickerish tinge of the narrative, Petal-of-the-Rose gives about as realistic a picture of China as a musi-comedy does of life, affords much the same kind of titillating entertainment...