Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mandolin Club with some 40 players will confine its activities to interpreting light classical music this year. The only numbers as yet certain of being on its program are the "Volga Boat Song" and the Intermezzo from 'Maila...
...course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
...Eskimo in question seemed fascinated by this song and in time learned those three words and practiced them with so much assiduity that he was ultimately able to sing them in a manner not wholly uncouth...
...waterfowl. Said I: 'There is a sort of romance in having naturally shy birds, perfectly free and unpinioned, coming ... to feed with perfect confidence out of my hand. . . .' Then I wrote of the late Theodore Roosevelt, how once he and I spent 20 hours studying bird song in the wilds of Hampshire. Said I: '. . . [Roosevelt] had a real feeling and taste for bird song...
...music, harmoniously staged. The same romantically inclined folk will overlook, in the general glamor, a turbulent succession of flat puns and desperate buffoonery. They will even forgive the unfortunate costume foisted upon handsome Songster Walter Woolf in the third act. They will thrill to the tinsel, to the song "Play "Gypsies", to the do-re-mi of routine musical comedy efficiently produced...