Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London made her a featured player when she returned to the U. S. in 1930. Since then she has acted in a Broadway play, performed in Daughter of the Dragon, and Shanghai Express, sung in a London night club, made three British pictures, toured the British Isles in a song revue. Now in Hollywood, her next picture will be Limehouse Nights...
...evidence this year. Lest snobbery or cliquishness raise its head. Wellesley charges the same for all dormitory rooms, assigns them by lot. Priding itself on a well-rounded life, Wellesley is inclined to think Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke rather grindish. Smith and Vassar a bit too social. A song often heard on chapel steps...
...Band Wagon and Flying Colors, Composer Schwartz and Lyricist Dietz have been recognized by Tin Pan Alley as a top-notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your...
Even Mr. Cohan's friends last week had to admit that his latest song was probably his worst. The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's. Typically Cohanesque was a bugle call for the transition from verse to chorus. The words were no better than the music. Excerpts...
George Michael Cohan has written more than 500 songs. He thinks "Venus, My Shining Star" (1894) is his best, but the U. S. public still prefers "Over There" (1917). Last week George M. Cohan turned out another song, for a huge benefit for German-Jewish refugees from Nazidom, held in Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. The affair was called "Night of Stars" and so was Mr. Cohan's song...