Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heckle-Proofed. From Iowa's 102 counties careful Hooverizers had picked 10,000 good Republicans who were admitted only by card to the Coliseum?a friendly, heckle-proof audience. The President's appeal to them, always earnest, sometimes touching, was for understanding and appreciation. Out of its sing-song monotony his voice occasionally lifted to a tremulous note...
...dedicated this year, "with special permission of the copyright owner Frank D. Roosevelt," to the Forgotten Man. The Forgotten Man himself, a nondescript in an ill-fitting suit, wearing an undersized brown derby, is presented in the flesh. He is impersonated by foolish-faced Don Barclay, who rises to sing about himself in the opening scene: With hope in his chest And an egg on his "vest- With pride in his glance And a shine on his pants- Uncle Sam needs a man who can take it! Comedian Barclay has little to do throughout the performance save appear stupid...
...night to Soprano Claudia Muzio who can be depended upon for a sure-fire performance of Tosca. Then will come the night which he hopes to make as memorable as the Christmas Eve when Tetrazzini trilled at Lotta's Fountain. Lily Pons will make her San Francisco debut, sing in Lucia di Lammermoor, the opera which introduced her to Manhattan one blizzardy January afternoon two winters...
...Phantom President (Paramount) proposes that the way to save the U. S. is to elect George Michael Cohan president. A strange combination of serious flagwaving, savage political comment, pure comedy, farce and romance, it owes much to George S. Kaufman's Of Thee I Sing...
Most of the music, by Howard Arlen (You Said It), is pleasant. Best tune: "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues...