Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good. The story is very far-fetched, and suffers from an insipid happy ending; but Sigmund Romberg's excellent music, sung as only Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy can sing, together with a good supporting cast and the rich browns and delicate blues of the sepia-platinum photography, make the picture entirely worthy of its Easter-weekend billing...
...bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only in the presence of Mr. Spear. He wears it on his watch chain...
...Vann Woodward analyzed these two protesting movements in a long (518 pages), meaty biography. Toombs's story was simpler and more heroic; Watson's was incredibly confused. For 30 years he was a hero to hard pressed Georgia dirt farmers; The Thomas E. Watson Song is still sung in the Georgia back country. Debs admired Watson, Bryan feared...
Most famous of the arias in "Dido and Aeneas" is that sung by Dido just before she dies: "When I Am Laid in Earth." But easily as worthy of fame is the closing chorus of the work, which we feel to be one of the peaks of choral writing...
Leading roles will be sung by David P. McAllester '38 and John H. Eric 1G. The production will be in costume with a ballet group, and will be accompanied by harpsichordist Claude Chiasson and a small string orchestra and chorus...