Word: songe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Blue sea beyond the fringe of palm trees--crimson blossoms glowing against the lush tropical green--dazzling sunlight and mysterious moonlight in rapid alternation--light-hearted maidens--rapturous song--love-making in three languages--dances exotic and unrestrained--conspiracies and revolutions warranted to chill the marrow on the hottest day, but all ending happily--and uninterrupted wireless communication with passing ships--No wonder all our friends have been going to Panama...
...redoubtable Ohdearno, lends dignity and solidity to the desperate undertaking. And then there is Anita, incarnation of sinuous wickedness and unscrupulous grace -- alluring, exotic, venomous. You can imagine what trouble she makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office-boy performs heroic deeds. The real thriller, of course, is the rescue in the nick of time by the naval officer...
Perhaps it would be as well to omit one or two songs and pension off a few of the older jokes, but the music, admirably led by Mr. Hancock, is good throughout. As the run is too short for the songs to become widely familiar, a few tunes already well-known have been interpolated. This gives the audience its chance to whistle. Rather too many of the songs are talked, but Mr. Freedley and Mr. Hollister produce some pleasant harmony, and Mr. Mills has a real voice. Messrs. Freedley and Hollister also do some spectacular dancing in the second...
...comic operas offer as pretentious a plot as does "The Stymie" and one is spared the usual experience of sitting through much unrelated dialogue in the hope that relief will appear in the form of another song. In fact, the play contains approximately half the customary number of musical selections, and the appeal to attention is frankly on the side of the story, with what amounts to incidental numbers, both songs, and dances, introduced for the sake of variety. The chorus of "Copper Moon" would have gained in effectiveness had it been sung "off stage"; and in several cases...
...Harvard Song Book has recently been compiled and edited by L. A. Noble '14, and is now on sale at the Co-operative Society. The volume contains about two hundred and forty pages. A number of improvements have been made. All the recent football songs are included; many of the popular Glee Club songs have been added; and a comparatively complete list of the well-known songs of other colleges has been brought into one section. The price of the new book is $2 a copy...