Word: troubadours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Children's Crusade might be the subject for a fine work of imaginative realism. Our Lives Have Just Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
Reviving the musical atmosphere of medieval society, the Fiedal Trio from Munich will play troubadour and minnesinger pieces on violins fashioned according to the ancient Gothic "fiedels" at a free public concert in Paine Hall on Friday at 8:30 o'clock...
...cannot make a sound. To cure himself of his psychosis, Eddie tries singing into a "dead mike." The microphone, not dead at all, is connected with the one on which the Bernie Band is broadcasting. Eddie's voice makes him instantly famed as "radio's phantom troubadour." Thereafter, Wake Up and Live consists of an elaborately braided narrative in which the main strands are Bernie's efforts to find out who the phantom troubadour is, put him on the air again; Winchell's efforts to beat Bernie to the discovery; and the efforts of a girl...
Crosby, determined to be a romantic troubadour at all cost, opens a roadhouse, from the proceeds of which he hopes to keep young Miss Fellows out of an orphanage. Madge Evans, the only one who emerges from the picture without loss of reputation, is the feminine gendarme who is ordered to put the little girl into the young people's jail. The roadhouse folds up, the orphanage refuses the Fellows menace, and Crosby falls in to Park lake in New York. So it all ends happily...
Crosby, determined to be a romantic troubadour at all cost, opens a road-house, from the proceeds of which he hopes to keep young Miss Fellows out of an orphanage. Madge Evans, the only one who emerges from the picture without loss of reputation, is the feminine gendarme who is ordered to put the little girl into the young people's jail. The roadhouse folds up, the orphanage refuses the Fellows menace, and Crosby falls in to Park lake in New York, So it all ends happily...