Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, has consented to give a short talk on the producing of musical comedies. Mr. Charlot had attained great success in London by his spectacular revues, but, realizing that the heart of this type of show was some small detail of the whole piece, such as a single song hit or clever monologue, he sought to develop a new form of light entertainment which would be a combination of light opera and the now prevailing vaudeville type of revue. Peculiarly this has been the field of drama that the Dramatic Club has exploited in "The Makropoulos Secret," "Paraclete...
...thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization are evolved with much probability. There are fine openings for sardonic pros and cons on the late* Mr. George's favorite subject, Woman. Evolution is consistently treated as a blind thing which "provides sport for forces which are sport for themselves...
...Gaelic Songs--Hebridean Islands, arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Kishmul's Galley The Seagull Island Sheiling Song Milking croon Churning lilt Death croon Sea-Reiver's Song...
Home went this, Swedish, chorus dame. In lovesick hopeless desperation. To save her brother's youthful name She would not give an explanation. The Ralstons find they've done her wrong, and their proud dignity unbending, Must I prolong this silly song? There is, do tell, a happy ending...
...chief contribution to the evening's entertainment, and one which did much to justify his headliner abilities, was his interpretative reading of an incident in the life of little Johnny Skunk or perhaps it was one of the other Little Folks. Miss Del Faust did well in a song and dance role. A sort of desperate finale advertising the feminine B. V. D. comes too late, just too late