Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This outfit is conducted by Eddie DeLange, a fiery musical personality praised by critics for his sparkling lyrics. He has written the lyrics for countless song hits, the most famous being "Solitude...
...today and tomorrow. The Irving Berlin music, sung and danced to perfectly by Fred Astaire and his tow-haired partner, provide hearty amusement. The story, as properly in a musical, is not much, but is gratifyingly free of dear old U. S. Navy claptrap and features a pleasantly satiric song about the Atlantic and the Pacific and "the admiral who's never been to sea." "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," "Let Yourself Go," "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," and "Where Are You?" are all hits. A wistful little girl named Harriet Hilliard sings the latter...
...Chamberlin (Russia's Iron Age) calls the famine of 1932, Author Strong prefers to characterize as a "grain shortage" attributable largely to kulak sabotage. Soviet women are all equal with men, are found in the front ranks of every enterprise. The Uzbek factory girls celebrate their emancipation in song...
...poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each. These are larger than the sales of songs introduced in the same period by Bing Crosby, Jeanette MacDonald...
...Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as Ariel's song to a drowned...