Word: songful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight's program, the same as that to be given by the Glee Club on its spring tour, follows: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men R. Vaughn Williams How Sweet, How Fresh Paxton Three Italian Folk Songs Adoramus Te Palestina Jubilate Deo Gabrichi Plorate Filli Carissini The Gondoliers Sullivan Intermission The Galway Piper Irish Folk Song City of Chow Bantock To All You Ladies Callcott Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Old French Melody
...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...
Majestic at 8.15--"The War Song". Reviewed today...
...current piece, "The War Song", George Jessel has tried to put over just one more play touching the recent unpleasantness. It gets off to a slow start and the first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again...
There you have just about all the hokum ever used in plays about the war. Some of it falls pretty flat, too, but it is surprising how in the last two acts it manages to keep the play above water. Now and then Mr. Jessel breaks into song, and though the songs aren't much he carries them...