Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lute Song" is one of the riskiest theatrical experiments tried in the last decade, one which required courage and good taste for its very genesis. Sidney Howard and Will Irwin have adapted a 550-yard-old Chinese classic into what earns the appelation of a charming and artistically superb love story. As far as the play's financial fate is concerned, however, the reactions of large but indifferent Boston audiences may well point to an early demise...
...such tunes as Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Bill, Only Make Believe, have ever really waned in popularity-and 01' Man River has become more famous than most folk songs. Back in their original places, the tunes have almost all their original pull. One new song, Nobody Else but Me, which Composer Kern wrote before his death last fall, finds itself in too fast company...
Listen, listen! The small song bird at the doorway of God's living place makes a whistling sound on a high note, And Phoebus makes a start at getting...
This year in Addlestone, Surrey, St. Mary of the Angels' Song School continued the ancient tradition by having schoolboy Dennis McMichael of Birmingham "consecrated" in full panoply-mitre, crozier, and ring (see cut). Addlestone's 1945 boy bishop has no church duties, officiates in leading deputations of other boys to visit the sick, sing carols...
Died. Edward B. Marks, 80, publisher (Edward B. Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...