Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three lonely ladies, aged about 40, find diversion in three young men from college. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - J. M. Barrie and Helen Hayes collaborating in a most satisfactory revival. AT MRS. BEAM'S - The terrible predicament of a boarding house which harbors a woman-eater. MUSICAL For song and electric sunshine these are recommended: Sunny, Ziegfeld's Revue, Iolanthe, Cocoanuts, Scandals, Merry World, Vagabond King...
...English-he's got to stand for something. A deep-hearted old jingo, tough as an acorn. Hearts of oak-wasn't that an old song? The acorn-heart of England. Ships, of course, and exports; that will be his business. An oak can stand for three hundred years, but this man is old. Have to get a big scene to bring out his fibre. Well, say he's in trouble with his stockholders; they don't like the way he's running the company, want him to resign, but he thinks he can diddle...
...take. The golden girl of the title falls into the web of a divorce suit as unidentified correspondent. Detectives and others interested assemble at her summer home. Moments of violent sleuthing are followed by moments in which the cast strive to act exclusive. Then there is a song and dance to confuse the spectator further. Of all of this the songs were best. The rest was indolent; a crude entertainment...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
...years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song. Now to the Wahhabis of Mecca music is an offense to Allah, strictly forbidden in holy places. A little crowd of "fanatics" charged the cortege; the soldiers fired; 25 Wahhabis, some of them women and children, fell dead. King Fuad had lost his chance for the Califate...