Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience left the theatre whistling and humming snatches from at least three definite song hits contributed by Lewis Gensler: "Don't Forget," "Cross Your Heart," "Everything Will Happen For The Best." The plot is frankly based upon that old farce, A Pair of Sixes, in which a poker hand assigns one man to the position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help...
...great point of their rhythmic innovations and the freedom of their rhythms. If they had any idea of what rhythm meant, they would know that in comparison with the rhythms of any of the great composers from the 16th Century onwards their own rhythms are merely as the sing-song of a nursery rhyme to the changing subtleties of a page of Shakespeare...
Reverend Norris goes on trial for murder on Nov. 1. Meanwhile, earnest workers of the First Baptist Church of Tarrant County, Texas, are planning a month of prayer meetings and song festivals in behalf of Killer Norris. The avowed purpose of their campaign is to reach the heartstrings of every man and woman in Tarrant County, whence will come the jurors who will try Killer Norris. His congregation has also scheduled a subscription meeting from which to glean funds for paying his lawyers...
Australian girls are very fine girls. Heave away! Heave away! With codfish balls they comb their curls. . . . Heave away for far Australia! -Antique Song...
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