Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
...Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back up the valley. Back to the sing-song house goes Lotus. Back to the land goes Wang. Back to Olan, just in time, go the pearls...
There is good entertainment in the two features, but one must sit through several reels of crude comedy, mediocre songs, and half-baked acting before being allowed to enjoy it. The dancing of Johnny Downs and Eleanor Whitney in "College Holiday" is top-notch, as are the anties of electrician Ben Blue. "Sing Me A Love Song" presents James Melton, who really can sing, and Patricia Ellis, who really can't act. But as a kleptomaniac who must have even stolen his name, it being Seigfried Hammerschlagg, Hugh Herbert steals all the good sequences of this picture...
...ushered in an eight-day revival of St. Paul's historic wintersports carnival, last Saturday night. Not since most of them were youngsters, 20 years ago, had the members of South St. Paul's* old "Hook 'Em Cow Club" had such a night to sing their song. Not since the national American Legion convention of 1924 had downtown St. Paul swarmed with such noisy, enthusiastic thousands...
...percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest a dance routine. Always an adroit orchestrator (he scored George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue}, Composer Grofe had come far from the time when he used to add melodic shimmer to such Whiteman numbers as the Song of India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work was a deeply-felt Negro Heaven of Otto Cesana. The whole concert pleased even pontifical old William James Henderson of the New York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music; his orchestra does not consist of swing...