Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained as a race horse, cow pony, hurdler, show horse, triple-bar exhibition jumper...
...Ross Bible omits only one book (Song of Solomon), slashes many, notably in the Old Testament, where 27 chapters of Leviticus are cut down to little more than a page of fairly large type. Digester Ross deletes "indelicate episodes" like the incest of Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19, 29-38), modifies others, such as Nicodemus' reference, in conversation with Christ, to the womb...
Knights of Song (by Glendon Allvine; produced by Laurence Schwab) is a musical show about the most famous of musical showmen, Gilbert & Sullivan. Besides providing a chance to go to town with their music, a play about them has comic and dramatic opportunities: Sullivan's long love affair with married, U. S.-born Cynthia Bradley; the violent wrangling between the two collaborators, who could not work peaceably together nor successfully apart; Queen Victoria's affection for genial, diplomatic Sullivan (John Moore), whom she knighted in 1883; her aversion to jealous, crusty Gilbert (Nigel Bruce), whom it was left...
...from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none of Gilbert & Sullivan...
...stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...