Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Day. Vincent Youmans, composer of such infectious songs as "Tea for Two," "Sometimes I'm Happy'' and "Hallelujah," presents his country with several remarkable airs in this bromidic and tedious musicomedy about a Southern lass (Mayo Methot) whose ancestral mansion is sold for a gambling house. Needless to say, a comely Northerner (Alan Prior) eases her heart. Two of Composer Youman's best tunes, the lingering "Without A Song," the jubilant "Great Day," are magnificently reverberated by an Afric choir of 40 voices led by Mr. Lois Deppe. Other Youmans' melodies which will soon...
...rather dull local color-Maoris feasting and testing their strength, hurled down hillsides by battle, or sticking out their tongues and making faces while they dance. Best shot: reflection in water of the great pattern of trees in which the tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good-bye song for tribesmen going away. Venus (United Artists ). No poet's goddess of pearl rising from the dark blue of an Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left over from a past, an extravagantly rococo period of the cinema. Action of this silent picture hinges...
...sound of his horn woke me from my bed And the cry of his hounds, which he oft times led Peel's 'View Haloo!' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. -CUMBERLAND HUNTING SONG In England and Virginia, Ireland and Ohio-wherever British or U. S. horsemen gather, people remembered that song last week, for cub hunting was over, formal fox hunting was beginning. Bank presidents set their alarm clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn...
...Jolson, and Marion Nixon, the pretty and sometimes rather appealing young wife, are forced to do more than their share. Davey Lee, as "Little Pal," is a deciding factor in the story, and gives a creditable performance while being so. It is the inspiration which results in the feature song of the program, also called "Little Pal." These words of emotional father love are well sung by Jolson, and are the best part of the picture...
...devilish ingenuity exhibited by some persons in combining the alarm clock effects of a loud cut-out and a sing-song auto horn throughout the length of Mt. Auburn Street just as the majority of the residents of Randolph, Claverly and the other Mt. Auburn buildings are about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune...