Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost unknown...
...narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will surely be, judging by the quality of Deems Taylor's compositions to date (Through the Looking Glass, The Siren Song, The Chambered Nautilus, etc.). A joyous, spirited and perhaps abandoned opera it is likely to be, if Poetess Millay has written as she was wont. Of burning her candle at both ends for the "lovely light" it gave, she used to rhyme. She has raced barefoot at dawn through...
Vulgar rhymes of this sort have long cast a quite unmerited mal-odeur upon the sausage business, and perhaps no man was more sensitive to the unfortunate effect of balladry than the late Adolf Gobel, sausage manufacturer. While recognizing, of course, that the Dunderbeck of the song was an entirely legendary figure, he could not do other than deplore the attitude of people who actually believed that when they ate liverwurst, bologna, or a bit of scampf, they were partaking of pulverized canine cadavers. Some thirty years ago this Adolf Gobel, who has done more, perhaps, for the sausage business...
...Their Majesties twice sought the theatre last week, twice graciously applauded able mummers- U. S. mummers. At the snug Empire Theatre, Fred and Adele Astaire delighted Royalty with that song and dance, Lady Be Good. Next evening Miss Jane Cowl brazened before the grandson of super purist Queen Victoria, in Easy Virtue. From the King-Emperor's vocal chords there issued not, last week, the baleful rebuke with which his grandmama blasted all questionable jests (even one cracked precociously in infancy by the present Edward of Wales) : "We are not amused...
...Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven, When your time on earth is through, You must be as Mr. Bryan, You will fail unless you do. The villain that brings little Mary Thagan to her "fatal doom" is made an object of pity as well as loathing...