Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin Quarter" theme of new decorations. Good floor show and music of one of Ruby Newman's orchestras. Good dinners at reasonable prices...
Case History (by Louis S. Bardoly; produced by James Troup) was written by a doctor, produced with the backing of a dozen of his colleagues, and deals with a medical theme. It tells of a fervent Christian Scientist who, when her step-daughter becomes ill, employs a Christian Science healer and will not call in a doctor until it is too late...
...earlier immature work, as is often the case in a transitional period. The original score contains a pleasing, long-breathed, impressionistic melody, but Debussy has not treated it with great fertility of invention: his harmonic treatment is not so outstanding as might be expected. There is a second theme that contains a choralc-like melody that does not succeed in the way that Chopin's use of the device did in some of his Nocturnes, nor in the way that Debussy's own use of it did later in "Le Cathederale engloutie...
...superimposed upon it the modern idiom of swing with superb effect. The result is the happiest since "Martha" took a new lease on life at the hands of swing and Connie Boswell. True, the subtle swaying rhythm has been sacrified to the accented rhythm of jazz and the chorale theme has been dropped; but the refreshing lack of a melodic sense of direction inherited from the original produces the most enhancing effect yet achieved in swing...
...Latin Quarter" theme of new decorations. Good floor show and music of one of Ruby Newman's orchestras. Good dinners at reasonable prices...