Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wessel song, hailed "Our Martyr!" Another special steamed out of Munich and, over cleared tracks with all switches spiked, roared down toward Schwerin. This was the luxurious train of the Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...
...piano against which leaned Miss Helen Jepson. A pretty, blonde soprano who reached radio fame with Rudy Vallee and Paul Whiteman, Miss Jepson is beginning her second year with the Metropolitan Opera Company (TIME, Nov. 25). She sang Ah, forse e lui from La Traviata, an English folk song, a Viennese waltz song. Bankers whistled, shouted, cheered, stamped. "It was a departure," explained Mr. Callaway later, "but without a speaker of commanding personality with a burning issue . . . speeches are an intrusion...
...Gaspar G. Bacon '37, William M. Hunt '36, David A. Barber '37, and Marshall Field Jr. '38. All roles have not been definitely assigned as yet and try-outs will continue during the next few afternoons to select those possessing outstanding histrionic ability. Director Arthur Hurley of "Desert Song" and "Little Accident" fame, has expressed himself as being well pleased with his material and Dance Director Bill Holbrook possesses a greatly enlarged chorus of the famous Hasty Pudding beauties, made possible by the largest number of tunes ever accepted for an annual production...
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin) is the first picture made by its star since City Lights (1931) and his third in seven years. In it, Chaplin sings one song but does not speak. The other actors are heard only when the action permits their voices to be mechanized through phonographs, television sets, radios. A musical score, written by Chaplin, accompanies the film...
...patched up a shack where both can live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have sadly ended...