Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thurber short story from a "New Yorker" of a few years back about mild, henpecked Walter Mitty and his daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does the mere fact that a picture has lost just about all the spirit of the story that prompted it condemn the picture itself as a separate entity? James Thurber...
...described only as appealing: his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semi-recitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...
...likes to wear outlandish hats. His current favorite: a Swiss yodeler's hat. Says Jimmy: "It keeps people talking." Unlike most of today's early-to-bed pros, in the evenings Demaret usually heads for the nearest night club-to hobnob with a bandleader and sing a song with the band. Like golf's great showman of the 1920s, Walter Hagen, he never lets golf interfere with...
...Yale Glee Club, which is conducted by Marshall Bartholomew, will combine with the Crimson in the final section of the program to sing "Old Bangum," an American folk ballad, "Fair Harvard," and Yale-song "Bright College Years...
...into his month. Same chuckles same trick. He wondered how many times the chef, had served peas in the past year. That's one way of finding out how many times he'd pulled the routine, how many times the same, audience had applauded. How Many Times, From the song of the same name. Now if these bright boys could follow his thoughts, he could sing it and hand them another laugh. But enough enough. All were waiting...