Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reginald ("Red") Rowland, 53-Year-old British cinema manager who claims to be the author of the dirty war ditty Mademoiselle from Armentieres (pronounced-for the purposes of the song-"armentaire"), told a newsreporter at his home in Sutton, Surrey, England: "I am trying to do a piece for the lads in this war. You know, though, they say it's only once in a lifetime that you do a masterpiece. But that wasn't a masterpiece, of course. The fact is, it was the utterest tripe, old boy, the utterest tripe...
Burden of Mr. Sargent's anti-war song: It is plain that Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James...
...title: in Chinese, Pai jih p'o ching chih yuan;* in Tin Pan Alleyese, When I Get Out, Beloved. Inmate Yun, 27, based his song on a 2,000-year-old Cantonese legend of a separated bride & groom, joined again in old age with the aid of matching halves of a little round mirror each had treasured through the years...
...Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...
Then he met sweet, unaffected Eugénie, who "was like the song of the nightingale. ..." A fast worker, Clisson "soon imparted to his passion a quality of force and inflexibility which belonged to him." Here a big chunk of the story is missing-probably destroyed by Napoleon for reasons of discretion rather than taste...