Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courting Song...
...setting soon wears off and Mr. Jolson, omitting his traditional blackface and wearing eve ning clothes throughout the show (which is a weak to-do about a woman who leaves her husband, but later returns to him), wastes a lot of his genuine talent on several pitiably bad songs. He cracks appallingly stale jokes-among them, the one about the girl who resents having her beauty compared to an old Rembrandt. In Act II, however, Comedienne Patsy Kelly capers through some coarse monkeyshines. Mr. Jolson sings a Yiddish folk song which is eminently successful and which anyone can understand...
June Moon (Paramount). Using the slight story of a scatter-brained youth who leaves Schenectady to write popular song lyrics in Manhattan, June Moon builds a satire on song writers and their lady friends, their bons mots and their ridiculous but engaging selfimportance. The scatter-brained youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets...
...last year's Intercollegiate Glee Club finals, even doting parents found tiresome the repetition of one prize song by eleven competing clubs. This year in Manhattan each club sang Elgar's "Feasting, I Watch" at a preliminary afternoon hearing. The best ones repeated it in the evening for guests, besides singing their college song and one other. Results: New York University first, Yale second, George Washington third...
...Mass, the performance of Bach's choral masterpiece tomorrow will have another significance. Sung by the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe, the presentation of the Mass marks the complete emancipation of the college glee club from its traditional limitations. Following the escape from the realm of the football song and the English balled, college organizations have gradually attempted the singing of works of ever increasing magnitude, and now they have attained the level of the B. Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest choral music ever written. And it is owing to the presence of Doctor Davison and Mr. Woodworth that...