Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief point, if any, of "The Orange Comedy," is that it has no serious intention and, at least intentionally, no serious moments. If any seriousness is discovered in the play, it will be eliminated at the dress rehearsal, and a song-and-dance team from Keith's will be substituted...
...musical comedy song-might well have gone back to another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily...
...earlier song, "Mr. Dooley," also mentioned Marconi: And young Marconi eats macaroni With Mister Dooley, ooley, ooley...
...lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed for discovering a myriad handy ways and inexpensive means of accomplishing effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly sanative, on "New American Furniture," which faces squarely the dark facts that the Mayflower had room for only a certain number of knickknacks and that imitations have grown more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young...
...realists, a composer of severe decorum and sriet technique. His place in musical history by the excellence of his instrumental compositions into which he introduced the freshness and lyric quality of his native Croation folk-tunes. Baydn's natural idiom, for that matter, was a heightened and ennobled folk song. The lecture on the life and personality of the Viennese composer will be given in conjunction with Professor Hill's Musics course...