Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a man got a job. He is a slender, witty young man of 44. He has had other jobs. Once he wrote songs, wrote "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" He wrote it for a show that failed, but he married the understudy of the leading lady, and the song made a hit; so his royalties were satisfactory. He had also a job with a subway company that did not build a subway. Then a very efficient political boss gave him a job in the state legislature, which he held for quite...
...joys and sorrows, its failures and successes, has joined its fellows in the great ocean of the past. The old year is a memory, the new year is an event. A tear for the old, a warm hand clasp for the new, a sigh for the departed, a song for the new guest. What happened yesterday has been consigned to the tomb. The future concerns...
...gold and glory. By the Way is a London success of many months and employs two principal British entertainers, Jack Hulbert and Cecily Courtneidge. It is terribly, terribly English, and for the first half very good fun. The second act fails to sustain the brisk supply of sketch and song. There is the usual British reticence in the matter of glowing scenery and costumes encrusted with emeralds. The piece has personality rather than pretense. It has also a complete English chorus, which oddly enough is highly decorative...
...purpose of the Conference was to bring young minds together to diagnose and prescribe for the ills of the world. It was reported that, "carried on the wings of song and prayer and undimmed idealism, they sought to bring close the poet's vision of the brotherhood of man, the federation of the world...
...MUSICAL Song and dance and damsels are most divertingly combined in the following: Sunny, Louie the 14th, Big Boy, Artists and Models, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince, Rose-Marie, Tip-Toes, The Vanities, No, No, Nanette...