Word: torches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club. "In recent years traditions have been dropped, scrap books and files have not been kept up." Continuing, he writes that it is the duty of the incoming officers to bear the responsibility, and to get after the schools and fellow college mates, for the club should "set the torch and inspire others to learn the art and pleasure of creative work in socializing music...
...moved them during modern years. . . . Whether the situation can be reme died by legislation remains to be determined. The hopes and prayers of Texas are that it can. . . . These are abnormal, parlous times. . . . The eyes of the nation are upon us, watching and hoping for us to raise a torch that will light the way for the Southland out of the darkness that now engulfs...
Last week the South waited patiently for the "big fat boy" to throw some of his surplus bulk into the surplus cotton problem, to take up the "torch" for other States to follow...
Laughing Sinners (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the title given to a cinemas-culated version of Torch Song, the play by Kenyon Nicholson which was the first outstanding success of the past Manhattan season. In Torch Song Author Nicholson played about with a case of mistaken identity between sex and religion. He showed his heroine joining the Salvation Army when deserted by a traveling salesman, later having a reunion with her lover when she tried to convert him. This aspect of the story has been overlooked in the cinema, which tells a plain and not particularly stirring case-history...
...demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...