Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the speakers, there will be both decorations and music. The VFW anthem which has just been completed, will be sung to the tune of the Vagabond Song...
...Anna (magnificently played by Luise Rainer) and moves ahead with the production of more pageania in the grand manner. For three glittering hours the screen is alive with Ziegfeld, his personal life and his productions. At least half an hour is devoted to a Ziegfeldian ballet based on his song hit "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" and studded with the most unbelievable number of chorus girls against absolutely indescribable settings...
...dear Karcsi: The fact that my song Gloomy Sunday is being played all over the world bewildered me-I do not know whether I should be happy over it. I stand in the midst of this deathly success as an accused. Believe me, Karcsi, this "fatal fame" hurts me. It hurls that so many people chose this song as their death march, making it world-famous with their act. People who die with a song must have beautiful souls, but I do not compose them for that purpose. I write songs to have people sing them and enjoy themselves while...
Unfortunately, even a galaxy of new talent plus Actress Keeler's husband, Al Jolson, cannot entirely disguise the fact that, aside from its personnel. The Singing Kid sticks with alarming fidelity to the tradition of its predecessors. Its story runs to formula. A song & dance man (Jolson) loses girl, money, voice, regains the latter two under the impetus of fresh romance. Production numbers, with the exception of one in which the Yacht Club Boys heckle Jolson for his Mammy songs, have a warmed-over air. As entertainment, it boils down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson...
Heading the bill at the University today and tomorrow is "The Music Goes Round," a hurriedly-concocted musical comedy which loses a great deal of the spice it might otherwise have contained as a result of the definite and sudden demise of its title song. Harry Richman, in the leading role, plays a famous stage and radio star who gets mixed up with "the last of the Mississippi showboats" and anonymously brings its cast to Broadway to amuse the sophisticated audience of his forthcoming, production. He falls in love with the heroine of the showboat's melodramas, who is also...