Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mere mention that a song called "Cinderella" occurs in the first act, will explain the plot sufficiently. "Wear Your Sunday Smile" and the title song "Judy", pleasant and innocuous, are the songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
...evening's brightest spot is the song and dance concerning the days "When Gentlemen Wore Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old." The men with beard-swathed faces, the girls with wasp waists and bustles, do a burlesque which is positively classic. It alone would be worth the price of admission and the sacrifice of an evening's time, even if "Judy" were no good. Fortunately, however, because of its refreshing informality and its speed, "Judy" is good...
...cheered, tooted auto horns and exploded flashlights, he executed three men at Charlestown, Mass., then took a train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried to commit suicide with a rope made of four towels knotted together. They took the towels away from him, draped a fresh one over his shoulders. As they led him to the death chamber a voice said, "If I could get hold...
Lace Petticoat. Years ago, Carle Carlton produced Tangerine, Irene, then turned his back on Broadway. Now he returns with Lace Petticoat. Good songs by Emil Gersten-berger and Producer Carlton, ingenious dances, Adelaide & Hughes abominable lines, stale humor! make it an uneven entertainment. Suggested by Deep River, it concerns a beautiful Louisiana nobody, whose romance is almost blasted by the rumor that she is a quadroon. In the last act, somebody says it is mere gossip. Song: "South Wind Is Calling." Tom Burke is the hero-tenor; Vivian Hart, newcomer, the joy of his stage life. Notable is a chorus...
...Bigelow Dornroeschen Tohaikovsky Prelude to "Le-Deluge" String Orchestra Saint Saens Paul B. Diederich, '28, Violin soloist Selection from "The Student Prince" by Romberg. Sobre Las Oias Rosas Xylophone Solo Poet and Peasant Suppe Caprice Huerter Scott W. Burbank, '29 March "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa Volga Boatman's Song ATT. Jacchua Harvard Marches Fair Harvard...