Word: potpourri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarship which dared to peek around a political corner was immediately seized, and the blight of partisanship was forever stamped upon its cover. Republican voters road Republican pamphlets, and convinced Democrats smiled disdainfully at Herbert Hoover's while fetching a dollar for Secretary Wallace's "latest". Into this potpourri of citizens, now that the party quarantine has been lifted, the Editors of the London "Economist" have dropped their appraisal of The New Deal, an appraisal which will both satisfy and dissatisfy Republicans and Democrats alike...
...Carl Carmer's book, subtitled "A York State Chronicle", is an attempt to catch the glamor of a part of our country almost totally neglected by contemporary writers. Having done his part by the South in "Stars Fell on Alabama", an engaging potpourri of myths, sketches, and experiences of Alabama, he turns to his native state in the present instance in a somewhat confused and confusing piece of copy that is part rationale, part travelog, part apology, part local-color journalism, but which holds the reader's interest throughout...
...confusion, reaching its climax when Dancer Elsa Kahl, as a laborer's wife, discards her drab clothes to join the women of the streets. With frothy moods Choreographer Jooss is less successful. A Ball in Old Vienna is only tritely pretty. Johann Strauss, Tonight! is a cluttered potpourri which does little more than show that Elsa Kahl can turn a cartwheel...
...triumphs on the stage, not of the Metropolitan in Manhattan but of a rival company in Philadelphia. Furthermore, Metropolitan has a string of less negative qualities to recommend it. Its screen play, by Bess Meredyth and George Marion Jr., is unfailingly light-hearted and literate. Its score, though a potpourri of operatic and concert-stage favorites, is well chosen. Its cast includes Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce and Luis Alberni. Its star is Lawrence Tibbett, whose baritone voice is still the best vocal instrument the talking screen has presented to the U. S. public and who in this picture, his first...
SalutationConverse (Composed for the Pops--First Per.) "An Evening with Bilse," Humorous Potpourri Ernst Scherz Pizzicato Polka Strauss *Overture, "William Tell" Rossini *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas (Guest cond.--Timothee Adamowski) "Sylvan Suite," Second Movement Strube (Guest conductor--Gustav Strube) *"Samson and Delilah," Fantasia Saint-Saens (Guest conductor--Clement Lenom) "Five Decades" (Hans Wiener Dancers with Orchestra) First Decade, 1885-1895, The immortal Strauss waltzes sweep around the world. *Waltzes from "Thousand and One Nights" Johann Strauss Second Decade, 1895-1905. Ragtime makes its bid for popularity Cakewalk, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" Lee Terny Third Decade, 1905-1915. Importation...