Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title of "Paint-Brush Song" Mr. Derek Beamish (stet) yearns boozily in alternate rymeless and meterless stanzas to be as cool as brook water and as warm as seasand. The seasand is about the hottest part of this effusion and our personal suspicion is that what Mr. Beamish needs is a cold head towel and a turkish bath...
...traditions of the once extremely popular comic opera are fulfilled in this importation from Vienna. There is a Bavarian prince who falls in love with the daughter of an umbrella maker. There are plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...
According to the unanimous verdict of the critics in east and west, north and south, Dayton must be satisfied with the second best in this sphere. For all have agreed that "in all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn." For the evidence read the ravings of otherwise hardboiled critics in the enclosed folder...
...perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, for the most exacting listener surely must admit that the choir of St. Olaf College...
...idly in a hotel in Havana, Cuba, where she falls in love with a rumrunner. Good atmosphere and acting almost succeed in turning into realism the neat melodramatics that make possible a happy ending. The picture is silent except for a final talking sequence and a theme song that goes "Shady Lady, Shady Lady! Girl of my dreams." Best shots?hotel life in Havana...