Word: songs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame It All on the Night" by Ruby Mercer, comely soprano from St. Louis' Municipal Opera Company...
...give a varied program of instrumental and vocal selections tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Living Room of Agassiz House. Seats are reserved for ticket holders only until 8:05 o'clock after which the doors are opened to the public. Such old favorites as the Irish Folk Song "Follow me down to Carlow", Jerusalem", Pergolesi's "Glory to God in the Highest" will be sung...
...while on Friday only students of Radcliffe and Harvard will be admitted Tickets may be ordered through the manager of the Harvard Orchestra. Admission is free. The program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven The Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras Io Son Bella Banchieri Follow Me Down to Carlow Irish Folk Song (Arranged by Percy Fletcher) Cantate Domino (Motet) Hassler The Choral Society Glory to God in The Highest Pergolesi Chorus and Orchestra Choral Prelude: Christ Lag in Todesbanden" Bach (Arranged by M. H. Holmes) The Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras Jerusalem Parry Orchestra and Chorus
...coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point in Red, Hot and Blue the magniloquent clown emphatically...
...Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt, thoroughly enjoying the sweet cider...