Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rose of Tralee and Ireland, Mother Ireland, I Feel You Near Me and A Pair of Blue Eyes (Victor, 2 records, $1.50 each)?De luxe recordings of the Song o' My Heart ballads sung by John McCormack as he does in the cinema. Already these have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese...
University of Maine Stein Song and St. Louis Blues (Victor)?Maine's famed son, Rudy Vallee, sings and plays his school song which, incidentally, is one of the best. Too pretty is his crooning version of Handy's hot-blooded Blues...
...Song of the Bayou and Black Eyes (Brunswick)?The first is an excellent Ben Bernie version of the Victor Company's $5,000 prize piece; the second is from a folksong played in every Russian cabaret...
Under a Texas Moon (Warner). Apparently harmless and unoriginal, no more than an old-fashioned "western" elaborated with a theme song, technicolor and a comedian cast in a serious role as an amorous bandit, this picture is important for being a direct violation of the Code of Cinemorality proclaimed last week by Tsar Will Hays. One of the principal articles of the Hays code was directed against the cinematic practice of glorifying criminals. In Under a Texas Moon a scapegrace who steals the property of decent people, lies to women, makes love irresponsibly and carries a pistol, is shown succeeding...
...Telephone Company, in which connection for the next ten years, he had charge of the delicate process of making bustling businessmen out of college graduates. Big Business has quite evidently touched brisk, white-haired President Wickenden. Upon his arrival at Case he decided that the school needed a livelier song. Not content with one that Composer Werner Janssen turned out, "he sat down and dashed out another set with more punch." Asked how he liked Cleveland and his new job, President Wickenden said: "Fine, but why the devil don't some of you fellows call be Bill...