Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolling her eyes and giving the customers a continuous big square-mouthed smile, Miss Green is constantly, if unintentionally, in the throes of an imitation of Fanny Brice. Nevertheless, she is the spark plug of Babes In Arms. She dances a little, sings a lot: most charmingly a song called My Funny Valentine, most stridently a song called The Lady Is A Tramp...
Hatched last week in the Manhattan offices of Adman Byron G. Moon was an ingenious scheme to end fabric design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr. Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and April in Paris a design of horse-chestnut blossoms...
...traveled from Monte-Carlo to Genova with a carload of flower-girls and dancers from Budapest. They all were in their native costumes where at Cannes they took part in the annual flower festival. Now, full of song and pranks, they were going back to their romantic Budapest. At every station we stopped they'd ask the porter to pick a few flowers for them--then they'd tickle his ear, give him a kiss and a postcard to mail. And what did they do with the flowers? They were getting ready for a battle. It began just before...
...Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week as he read a gracious speech void of importance-in the true sense a swan song by a once great man once greatly beloved...
...indifference to tonal qualities. Later they had a chance to hear Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher (The Organgrinder) which had never been played in the U. S. before. Der Schwanendreher is a concerto for viola and small orchestra, based on traditional German folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys into a whole astonishing movement. Bassoon, clarinet, oboe, horn and solo viola made an intricate, lovely fugue out of The Little Bird on the Fence. Critics considered the concerto "work-manlike," "resourceful," "poetic," "often amusing," looked forward to hearing it again in New York this...