Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About five years ago the Co-optimists, a musical review in London, discovered Jessie Matthews, and gave her among others this song to sing...
...final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
...immediate future at least, will be run as a separate department, "benefiting from the wide Putnam scope. Palmer Cosslet Putnam's new partners are Melville Minton. 45. a big-chested, hardworking salesman with a business head; and Earle Balch, 36, the curly-headed, smiling, amiable, pianoplaying, song-singing, artistic half of the combination, the one who gives the tea parties to the authors while Partner Minton is out on the road selling their books. The line-up of the new firm: Irving Putnam, president; Minton, vice president; Palmer Cosslet Putnam, treasurer; Balch, secretary. Another vice president will be Irving...
Conductors in San Francisco were to be Arthur Luis, famed in the West for his work with many a German song society, and Fest Director General Frederick Schiller. Principal soloist was Metropolitan's big-bosomed Soprano Margarete Matzanauer...
...this instance the device is the birth of a child to the first wife of a young man (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who is about to be married a second time. It is a homely but fairly funny program picture. Typical shot: a milkwagon horse adding a whinny to a song hiccupped by Fairbanks after a night...