Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called "You Love Me." Miss Baclanova tells Inspector Ellery: "I read men like books...
Three months ago all unbeknownst to themselves three little pigs turned song-pluggers. Their behavior was revolutionary so far as the song industry was concerned. Song-plugging had been left before to such shrewd and experienced performers as Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house...
...with dripping chops and a chest as big as a barrel. He huffed & he puffed & he blew down the houses of sticks and straws, sent the foolish piglets scuttling to the wise piglet's house where they hid under a bed, yet like professional pluggers kept repeating their song until audiences knew it by heart...
...afraid of the big, bad wolf?" The absurd, sprightly little song is whistled on thousands of U. S. street corners this autumn, one of the leading catch tunes of 1933. And the two little pigs have had their song published, the first of the Disney creatures to accomplish so much. They have established a market for future Disney tunes with a contract, signed last week, whereby Irving Berlin's publishing house will have the sheet-music rights over Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies...
When the Press tried to catch Frank Ryan yesterday afternoon they were confronted by one of the Colonel's Cerberi. "You can't get In" the old song droned. "But Frank Ryan told us to be here this afternoon." "Who's he," came the response, "one of the football players...