Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraternal buttons and colored caps, the members of the Co-operative Clubs of Kansas City gave President Frederick Arnold Middlebush of University of Missouri a rousing build-up as guest speaker by singing Sweet Adeline. Guest Speaker Middlebush fidgeted, rose, exploded: "That song arouses no sentiment in me. When I was elected to the presidency of the University of Missouri a few months ago I was forced to give up my quiet home on the outskirts of Columbia and move down on the campus. Every Saturday night since then I have heard the last passing Sweet Adeline never earlier than...
...Ellis, for example, is not a wholly unattractive young woman. Her coiffure has been strangely mutilated, but her charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry about...
...Feigum has 200 copies of a song she composed. It is published in sheet form and she would like to sell the copies for 25 or 35? each in order to get money for medical supplies. Her friends will help mail them out if those interested will send their orders to Mrs. O. Feigum, Sweet Home...
With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...
...high spot in any music season is a song recital by Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who makes a program glow with her abundance of feeling, her richness of voice. After a memorable Manhattan concert Mme Lehmann began a tour last week which will take her to the Pacific Coast. Coincidentally, an album of phonograph records was issued to represent a complete Lehmann recital with songs by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Hugo Wolf.* Collectors pounced on it because, mechanically, it was outstanding; vocally, Lehmann was at her best, an eloquent interpreter of a dozen different moods...