Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Song Selections...
...Love Call. Arizona, a melodrama which flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...
...Beautiful Isle" Sirs: When I was a little girl my poor mother many an evening sang me "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," the song which you report Cardinal O'Connell of Boston denounces [TIME, Oct. 17]. She would hold me in her arms and sing the song over and over again. It soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please...
Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...
...whistle Saturday, and went partially unrecognized, or worse still was misinterpreted in some quarters. The visiting cheering section had been specifically instructed to remain in the stands until after Harvard had sung its "alma mater". And still they watched and still their wonder grew--the Crimson apparently had no song to honor its name in defeat as well as in victory. The losers were no less amazed. "What manner of men are these, who refuse to celebrate their conquest in the customary and accepted fashion", were the words on all lips as the Dartmouth stands remained respectfully at attention...