Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
...bored with my own conversation." As the $51,065-ton Italian liner Rex slid up New York Harbor, news spread over the ship that Europe was not going to war after all. Bursting with this glorious coincidence, Metropolitan Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when it threatened to cut his pay, and who was returning to the U. S. to sing on the radio, could not wait either. While stewards gasped, he gave everything he had to "Where...
...fast, powerful aggregation from the hills beyond Cayuga's waters (for there, the song tells us, live 50,000 slightly crowded collegians) will enter the Stadium confident of overwhelming the Crimson in this, their one encounter for several years. Star-studded and bulky is Coach Snavely's team, admittedly ranking with Dartmouth as tops in eastern climes...
...direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from Who's Who and half from the Social Register, roar with joy: when a packed stageful of Negroes shagged, capered, clapped, galumphed, jumped up & down in a great spontaneous whirl...
...induced in a café proprietor (Pat O'Brien) by his hysterical efforts to hire a satisfactory orchestra, it reaches its comic peak when he makes his pressagent (Margaret Lindsay) believe he is dying in order to persuade the bandleader hero (John Payne) to renew his contract. Best song: Love Is Where You Find...