Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot's the thing, and the plot of "Tiger Shark" is just the theme song of one thousand and one cheap triangle melodramas set to the tuna fish industry. Hence the whole plot is out at the elbows, predictable, and slightly dull. The photography is good, affording many interesting shots of the proper way to catch fish, which are like all educational pictures, much too prolonged. It is enough to say that this movie is amusement...
...cast. Of Course, there could never be anyone but Helen Morgan to take the part of Julie. No one from the vantage point of a piano top could carry the magnetic thrill of her personality to every member of the audience, as she sings that oddly sentimental song, "Bill," for which incidentally, P. G. Wodehouse, wrote the lyric...
...passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change since he died...
...Manner Gesang Verein devoting itself seriously to ambitious music. For this reason it is advocated that the Glee Club surrender its little to some other group of Harvard singers who will represent more closely the gay, gleesome choristers of the Nineties, with their frivolous glees of wine, women, and song...
...flower-girls shouted their lovely and ethereal opening chorus, "List and Learn," too heartily and too fast; and the Gondolieri sang "Buon' giorno, signorine" like students at a Biergarten, "We're called Gondolieri" came off with speed and good-spirits, but without the whirling, infectious momentum that the song is capable of. In contrast to the chorus, the contadine Tessa and Gianetta showed from the moment that they were picked out of the crowd of flower-girls by the blindfolded young men that they were going to make the most of the two best ingenue parts in the Savoy Operas...