Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help inaugurate a new television service, 75 Jersey City schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 were taken to the studio to sing. Their song: "Fill the Stein for Dear Old Maine" (college wassail lately plugged by Radio Bandmaster Rudy Vallee...
Jonica is musical comedy at $3.50 top concerning a cute girl who journeys from a convent to attend a wedding in Manhattan. The complications, song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...
...mysteriously salable banalities of musical comedy are further exemplified in Jonica by a song entitled "I Want Someone," the queer facial contortions of Joyce Barbour, who really can be pretty, and a wedding parade in which the girl from the convent is propelled, by coincidence, into matrimony...
...Radcliffe is $.50 and for the public $1.25. The program is as follows: Jerusalem Parry Me Ye Have Bereaved Morales Marching Brahms Three Pictures From "The Tower of Babel" Rubinstein May No Rash Intruder (from "Solomon") Handel Choruses from "Ruddigore" Sullivan Dirge For Two Veterans Hoist Fireflies--Russian Folk Song Three Welsh Folk Songs The Monk's March O' Why Camest Thou Before Me? Men of Harlech Summer Evening Student Song of Finland Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor
...seems the theater racketeers have discovered that speculation does not pay--if everybody speculates. So the song is ended. But they may, alast find out under the new system that when everyone is honest, a single scofflaw can gambol with considerable profit in the green pastures of hey-hey. Which leads to the conclusion that only if there is honor among theives can the public not "be damned...