Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount--"The Big Broadcast," a dreary parade of Radio's luminaries, who shine very dimly indeed on the screen. One "Bing" Crosby booms and sighs, one Kate Smith yearns audibly in song, one Stuart Erwin falls over things. A dire prophecy of television...
...first meeting of the German Sing-Song, an informal club of undergraduates who gather to sing German songs and popular music, will be held in the Lowell House Tower Room tonight at 7 o'clock, J. MacL. Hawkes '26, announced yesterday. The organization plans to continue the activities of last year, such as the radio broadcasts, and the talks by guests; concerts will be given by the members before clubs which desire them...
Heckle-Proofed. From Iowa's 102 counties careful Hooverizers had picked 10,000 good Republicans who were admitted only by card to the Coliseum?a friendly, heckle-proof audience. The President's appeal to them, always earnest, sometimes touching, was for understanding and appreciation. Out of its sing-song monotony his voice occasionally lifted to a tremulous note...
...late great John Pierpont Morgan what he thinks about the Moratorium. "Don't know anything about it," replies the shade of Mr. Morgan. "You better take the Berengaria." Mr. Carroll excites whoops of enjoyment from spectators aware of the city's political situation with a Jimmy Walker song ending: You can have your City Hall, I'll take A. C. Blumenthal...
High point of the performance is a song, "Across the River," composed by the playwright and sung by David (Walter Richardson). If you liked The Green Pastures, 01' Man Satan should remind you in spots of that more profound, more seriously comic predecessor...