Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This summer's repertory: Teresina, Rio Rita, Madame Sherry, The Chocolate Soldier, Good News, The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Beloved Rogue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Desert Song, Roberta, Lady in the Window, a world première by Sigmund Romberg...
...mural painter, decorator, stylist, writer, musicologist, beauteous only daughter of Socialite Charles de Loosey Oelrichs of Manhattan, Newport and Palm Beach; and Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 26, registered pharmacist, orchidaceous band leader at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino; in Manhattan. Conductor Duchin's longtime theme song: "Margie...
Never was a song more cruelly abused. Yet many realized that it was a rare, good tune in its smooth, nostalgic style. And it served to turn attention to quiet Ray Noble, no ordinary, illiterate, catchpenny songwriter but the well-mannered son of a well-to-do London neurologist and a nephew of T. Tertius Noble, the venerated organist of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. Organist Noble has never been known to hum "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Nor has he ever met his nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only...
...Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics unanimously predicted, Parade proves to be theatrical medicine too bitter for bourgeois taste, Jimmy Savo will have the satisfaction of having appeared under the august auspices of the Guild, whose portals have been passed by only one (George M. Cohan) erstwhile song & dance man before...
Died. James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through...