Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Special credit should be given to Joan Davis, a girl orchestra leader, who does two fine comedy song and dance bits. Arthur Treacher plays his usual capable valet role...
...tune had gone around the world ("they made a lullaby out of it in China" -to plink-plink accompaniment from the orchestra), Mr. Musiker came upon some students, presumably radical since they were singing Pie in the Sky. He was glad to give them his tune, for a marching song...
...Berlin, an elderly, indomitable English lady planted herself one morning last week in front of the Duke's hotel, sane at the top of her voice clear through the song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called Off The Record, confiding "I'm very fond of Eleanor, but I never read her column,'' vouchsafing further, with intervals of hoofing...
Funster House Committeemen issued the following statement last night in regard to tomorrow's festivities: "The followers of Bacchus will make merry, and there will be revelry and song, sweet music and gay laughter when maids and swains frolic under the ivy tower. The grape will flow from many a bowl, and there will be feasting in the great hall. Dinner will be served from 6 to 6:45, and there will be dancing from 6 to 12 at Dunster House after the Dartmouth game...