Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group of Radio City Music Hall artisans who, calling themselves "The Grover Boys," decked themselves out in phony Whalen beetle brows, phony Whalen mustaches for a World's Fair song & dance...
Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
...found oil to soothe its smarts. Oil has been the University's sustenance from birth. Of its $121,000,000 assets, $78,000,000 came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties on a gusher producing 450 barrels a day (at current prices...
...Vagabond couldn't answer that one. He went back to his shaving. A few minutes later he heard them wrestling in the sitting room. Then before he could stop them, they slammed out the door and went rocking across the quadrangle arm in arm, singing a Harvard song...
...Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, "Tannhauser" Wagner *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Turkish March Mozart *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier *Suite from the Ballet "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Walther's Prize Song from "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Divertissement Ibert *Roses from the South," Waltzes Strauss *Malaguena Lecuona *Strike Up the Band" Gershwin...