Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abramson, producers). For this season's few musical shows in Manhattan† this studiously unoriginal little opus afforded company rather than competition. The story is labeled: "A Royal Escapade in a Little European Kingdom. . . . Let Us Call It Langenstein." The music is cacophonous except for "I Found a Song" which decorative Nancy McCord and spry little Guy Robertson spend most of their time singing. For humor Librettist Herendeen has relied heavily on the outlandish sound of U. S. slang in dreamy old Langenstein...
...Paramount) has a title borrowed from a popular song, a story borrowed from William Faulkner and subjected to reverse English. In The Story of Temple Drake, Miriam Hopkins was a well-bred girl whose association with low characters led to unpleasant doings in a cornbin. In All of Me she is a patrician girl, selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island...
...hardly in the same class as its companion, it is, however, good of its kind. It is the run-of-the-mill musical comedy, Hollywood style. Its greatest virtues lie in the unusual amount of good music and in the personality and general form of Miss Ginger Rogers. Such songs as "I Wants Meander with Miranda," "Good Morning Glory," and "Did You Ever See a Dram Walking" all currently popular, are to be found scattered through the course of the film. The plot, if the faint trend of connected story may be so designated, concerns a couple of song writers...
...program at St. Paul's will include "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke," by Handel, the "Misereri," by Allegri, "The Peddlers," a Russian Folk Song, "Crudele Irene," an Italian song, and several other selections, including the "Gondoliers," by Gilbert and Sullivan...
Composer Cohan, who is now acting in Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness!, calls his Roosevelt birthday song just a "howdy" to the President. Its chorus...