Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrena Van Gordon who is to sing the role of Brunnhilde this evening stated yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter that she preferred to sing before an audience composed of college students that before any others...
...Story* moves from west to east, from Kansas City to Sing Sing death chair. It is drab as a freight yard, long and unrelenting as a freight train, dismally disastrous as a fuddled driver and a grade crossing...
...again evident that M. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko's "singing actors" act much better than they sing. From a purely auditory viewpoint the performance was scarcely more than worth attending. The eye, however, was caught, held and delighted by the perfect ensemble pantomime of the chorus, which lolled and sat about at various levels throughout most of the production, and provided a sort of "visual accompaniment" to the action which centred about the main characters...
There is a plot about a trio of vaudeville entertainers who try to crash society at Palm Beach. True love meets a millionaire and matters are amicably concluded. Miss Smith again demonstrates that she can dance, sing and be funny a little better than almost any other comedienne. Mr. Tombes and Mr. Watson, aided by good material, are pretty ridiculous...
Upon close inspection of M. Dantchenko's synthesis of all the arts which can be crowded upon a stage and into an orchestra pit, it must be acknowledged that showman Gest's claim to have at length brought "singing actors" to the U. S. has been rather cruelly substantiated. So far the synthesized productions have been Lysistrata (TIME, Dec. 28, THE THEATRE), La Perichole and The Daughter of Madam Angot. On the basis of these sufficiently extensive samples, it may be definitely stated that, while the "singing actors" act with flawless and breath-taking ensemble perfection, they sing quite indifferently...