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Word: songful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wolf Song (Paramount). Hill scenery is the background of this intelligent attempt to fit music into a romantic story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Lucky Boy (Tiffany-Stahl). George Jessel's clear, vigorous singing of three theme songs better than the average prevents his first sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...program for tonight's concert is as follows: Tafellied Johannes Brahms Joint Number Meet and Right It Is Arranged by Archangelsky When I View Chadwick Lord Who Has Made Holst Smith College Glee Club To All You Ladies Callcott The City of Chow Bantock The Galway Piper Irish Folk Song Harvard Glee Club The Day of Judgment Arranged by Archangelsky Ospodi Pomiluy Lsvonsky Joint Number The Splendor Falls Holst Down the Wagon Way North Country Folk Song The Keel Row Tyneside Air, arranged by Fletcher Smith College Glee Club In Dulci Jubilo Gabrielli Adoramus Te Palestrina Joint Number Then Round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO SING IN BOSTON TONIGHT | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

...should also increase. Careless school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sol Cheered | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him for that Midnight Frolic which Mr. Ziegfeld insists is "atop" the New Amsterdam Theatre. Best songs: about Valentine, and M. et Mme. Elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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