Word: songs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evocations, as in many earlier works* (Schelomo, Israel Symphony, Sacred Service, Voice in the Wilderness), Bloch mixes French Impressionism with fervent Levantine lamentation, getting an idiomatic pottage peculiarly his own. His finest scores reflect the barbaric splendor of the Old Testament, sing their Hebraic song with prophetic thunder and wailing intensity. Even his "America" Symphony -which won a $5,000 prize offered in 1927 by Musical America for the most distinguished work by a resident American- was colored by Hebraic idioms...
...Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them 15-to-14, took the Fred Allen Medal. Then with ear-splitting song, the hardy curlers shouldered their brooms and paraded to the bar for refreshment...
...salesman, dressed in the kind of clothes the Club men will be discovering early this spring, teetered back and forth on his crepe soles and hummed a Harvard football song to show the young gentleman they were really both just typical college guys...
...blood, driving about Shanghai in a Buick cabriolet, which does credit to Director Eugene Forde and in an excellent sequence she is shown fighting her way through a terror-stricken mob during an air-raid. Perhaps the most enjoyable scene, however, is that in which she renders a blues song in a languid, husky monotone, and then proceeds to "bury the torch" in the approved Kay Thompson manner. The song is mediocre, but Miss Del Rio makes the very most of it, and the same may be said for the picture as a whole...
Brothers do three violent routines, sing a song, Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...