Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required to compose new music for The Big Bad Wolf. The piglets still pipe the tune by which 1933 will be remembered though by now they should be as tired of it as the rest of the U. S. The wolf, an equally good entertainer, has no song at all. No Greater Glory (Columbia), adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel Paul Street Boys, is a war picture unlike any other that has come from Hollywood. It concerns the struggle between two groups of Budapest schoolboys-the Paul Street Boys and their larger rivals, the Red Shirts -for possession...
Everyone knows two facts about the University of Maine, but few outside New England can supply three. Last week newsreaders learned that the University whose hymn is the "Stein Song" and which once harbored Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, had elected a new president, LaFayette's Dean Arthur Andrew Hauck...
...Howard Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman's verses, gesticulating passionately. Whirling papers, dusty mops, cans, cans, pots and pans brought on lugubrious germs which attacked a group of innocent children. A dozen trim sweepers saved the situation by singing the Clean City Committee's Marching Song. Excerpt...
Paramount and Fenway -- "Wonder Bar". Al Jolson's new picture with 600 girls, 5 song hits and 10,000 thrills according to the press agents. Also "Two Alone" with Tom Brown and Jean Parker...
...whom were fortunately present to take their bows, we heard consecutively "O Fons Bandusiae" (Randall Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...