Word: opus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...
...King's Horses (book & lyrics by Frederick Herendeen; music by Edward A. Horan; Harry L. Cort and Charles H. Abramson, producers). For this season's few musical shows in Manhattan† this studiously unoriginal little opus afforded company rather than competition. The story is labeled: "A Royal Escapade in a Little European Kingdom. . . . Let Us Call It Langenstein." The music is cacophonous except for "I Found a Song" which decorative Nancy McCord and spry little Guy Robertson spend most of their time singing. For humor Librettist Herendeen has relied heavily on the outlandish sound of U. S. slang...
...Currently the Met matinees are being sponsored over the NBC chain by Lucky Strike which contributes some $100,000 per season to the Met treasury for the privilege. But last week Met Director Sarnoff wanted to talk less about broadcasting grand opera than he did about a new RCA opus...
...assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...
...goes. If you like this bundle of grunting, r'aring sox, you will doubtless enjoy her latest movie. The opus lacks the freshness of the first, partly for the reason that Miss West's favorite remarks to males have been publicized to the point of near extinction, and partly for the reason that few, if any, new ones have been added. The gags in the picture have apparently been ground out by some studio back with a memory stopping at the year 1918, and with a bad case of the jitters; the music, if you care to call it such...