Word: songs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world laughed in her cartoons and journalistic satire at the bird cages, umbrellas, and fans of the Chinese soldiers. But this soldier of yesterday is passing. The informal pleasant weather fighting has been displaced by modern war, and the 3,000,000 armed men have become a song of death to China, and a menace to the entire world...
Title: "Tinpan Alley" refers to Woolworth's failure as a song writer (My Little Dixie Pixie"). The title also shows the influence of the Montgolfier brothers, who were making the first balloon ascensions in the same year...
Volunteers are wanted, to act as Santa Claus, and to help distribute presents for Phillips Brooks House, Planists, song leaders, vocalists and entertainers are also needed and may volunteer for this work by leaving their names with the Secretary...
Harry Delmar's Revels. The process of glorifying one Harry Delmar, vaudevillian, was duly inaugurated last week. Dully, too, in spots. Other spots included a jovial pony ballet; a vulgar song that grossly libels the Revolutionary hero Paul Revere; various deft dancers; Frank Fay, one of the few high-voiced comedians who can induce hysterics...
...showing to shiver with terror. Elsewhere he made aviators, critics and common people laugh ecstatically. Trini, billed as the star, offered some sex-appeal and stamped her Spanish feet. One Kitty O'Connor gave cry with what seemed practically a baritone in her joyfully accepted rendition of the song hit, "We'll Have a New Home in the Morning...