Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dink-a-Bell!"). She is again very funny as the slightly Semitic Southern girl in her travesty on Strictly Dishonorable, but not so funny in a maudlin recitation of Dorothy Parker's Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs, "In the Merry Month of Maybe," in which Ira Gershwin and Mr. Rose have...
...song whose sale has neared the four-million mark would be an enviable memorial for any composer but in New Haven last week still further tribute was paid the late Ethelbert Nevin, composer of "The Rosary," one of the most famed and most abused of all U. S. songs. A copper plaque, the gift of the Connecticut State Federation of Music Clubs, was set between the tall windows of the ivy-covered house where Nevin died 30 years ago. Mrs. Nevin, the composer's widow, went up from Manhattan to do the unveiling while neighbors recalled anecdotes about...
...years ago when Rudy Vallee was plugging the song "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" he brought more trouble than glory upon his head by advertising it as one of his own creative efforts. Last year one Roberta H. McKay of Los Angeles claimed that she wrote the song, brought a million-dollar suit against Vallee which is still pending. Four months ago Songwriter Leon Zimmerman whom Vallee named as co-author sued for an accounting of $80,000 profits...
...Hurlbut '34 will play on the accordion, and the Gold Coast Orchestra will give a few selections. Following those will be a vocal trio composed of L. G. Thurber '34, Guy Hayes '34, and F. F. Cary '34, assisted by Atreus Von Club will sing "A Winter Song", "Old Man Noah", and "Heidelberg...
...program for tonight follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Now Let Every Tongue Bach Turn Ye to Me Scotch Folk Song The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Spring Returns Marenzio Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Choruses from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan