Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputations, Soprano Lily Pons's second cinema vehicle is really less a moving picture than a recorded concert with illustrations on the screen. As such it is satisfying entertainment. Vivacious little Diva Pons yodels a nameless vocal exercise, an adaptation of Panofka's Tarantella, an Arthur Schwartz tune called Seal It With a Kiss and, for the inevitable climax on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, the Una voce poco fa aria from The Barber of Seville, in which she turns loose the fastest high C yet released on a Hollywood sound track. All these correspond...
...Radio City Music Hall. The Show Is On is a superior sequel to his At Home Abroad (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). In it Mr. Minnelli has the nation's eight greatest show-song writing teams working for him. Spectators are still trying to remember how the Rodgers & Hart tune goes when the band begins playing an even better one by George & Ira Gershwin. There is Gracie Barrie to keep the good songs ringing clear, Buxom Mitzi Mayfair to strut the hot numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian...
Coordinator Berry's offer, cracked an associate, was in tune with the times but sounded less like Edward VIII's offer to give up the throne than like Mrs. Simpson's offer to give up the King...
Scarcely anyone failed to tune in on Edward VIII as he took leave of his country or to read within a few hours the simple words with which His Royal Highness said good-by to very nearly all except "the woman I love...
Newt Holley (Walter Brennan) planned to serenade his son Ernie (Joel McCrea) and the latter's bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) with St. Louis Blues on their wedding night. He felt the tune might be a kind of charm to bring him a grandbaby. Newt never got to play the tune that night because Ernie ran away after he had knocked a man into the river for trying to kiss the bride.' When Ernie finally came home again he quarreled so with Pearl that she went to New Orleans with an itinerant photographer (Walter Catlett). Following...