Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...star-men and women who may lack the volume or tone necessary in true operatic amphitheatres, but who will have the good looks which cinema audiences, perhaps rightfully, demand. Other famed singers who have been successful in more or less serious vocal efforts for the sound-camera: John McCormack (Song of My Heart), a failure on the grand opera stage but a great concert attraction; Lawrence Tibbett (Rogue Song) a capable operatic baritone...
...memorable tunes of the show include: "Nina Rosa," "Your Smiles, Your Tears," "A Gaucho Love Song," "My First Love, My Last Love...
...institutions, Maine and Yale, which have claim on him as a son, mix it up today in the Yale Bowl. "Time Out" is sure both teams will strive the harder, knowing that their pal Rudy is up there, somewhere, in the stands, singing, softly to himself the Maine' Stein Song to the tune of Boola, Boola, or vice versa .... Yale, incidentally, seems to have solved the problem that has bothered some of its teams in years which have not yet faded far into memory. Reports, perhaps not wholly true, have explained the ineffectiveness of the Elis in their objective games...
...very merry conclusion is done in the usual vivacious manner, and after Feste's brief song, the book is closed upon an evening that was thoroughly entertaining at least...
...story: In 1923, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. asked Valentino, then, the rage in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to try making records. They rehearsed him on operatic arias but were not pleased. He slurred, mumbled, muffed, his diction was atrocious. Finally the Kashmiri Song (because he sang it mutely in The Sheik) and El Relicario (because of his Latin cast) were chosen. To Conductor Ralph Mazziotta who coached him, Valentino inscribed a photograph "In remembrance of my first record. (Hope it is a good...