Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really difficult to single out any one part of the revue for special comment. Of course, Bert Lahr and Cliff Edwards are good, the former at his best in the song "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You." Cliff Edwards scores two smashes--as Mussolini in the song "Boondoggling," and as Henry the Eighth in a skit...
...Buxom Mrs. Bascom," a Lahr and Edwards comic song, was just the thing for the Opera House audience, which...
...Henry Robbins '37, the Vocal Club under the tuition of Malcolm Holmes '28 has been working on three Russian songs; "Song of the Volga Boatmen", "Fireflies", and "At My Father's Doorstep". Also included on the program are the two dities, "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?" and "The Pope." An innovation will be accompaniment of the Vocal Club by the Banjo and the Mandolin Clubs in two of the folk songs...
...words of a song which State Motor Vehicles Commissioner Charles A. Harnett distributed among 150 assorted businessmen, Broadway sports and has-been politicians who sailed down New York Harbor one morning last week aboard the lighter Charlie White to greet James John Walker. The onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York was returning to his native city after three years of self-exile in Europe. A pall of dirty fog overhung the harbor. But it did not compare with the cloud which hung over Mr. Walker's head when he resigned his job and sailed away from New York...
Died. Henry Herbermann, 57, beclouded shipping magnate; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Washington. A onetime railroad laborer, Herbermann bought American Export Lines (without ships) for a song, 18 freighters from the Shipping Board for less than the Board spent to put them in shape. Two years ago the Senate discovered that although the line had received nearly $27,000,000 in Federal benefits and subsidies, it still owed the Government $8,000,000, was in bad shape. Herbermann was unceremoniously demoted from president to vice president (TIME, March 12, 1934 et ante...