Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture is a controlled extravaganza. There are very few chorus numbers, and the production is probably unique in being carried musically by a single tune, the pleasant "Too marvelous for words...
...Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners own no stock in the track. Certain it is that Bulletins hefty department store advertisers look on the track's activities with a thoroughly jaundiced...
...team, now consisting of Paul For at No. 1, Skiddy Von Stade at No. 2, and Townsend Winmill, back, recently turned back a New York Athletic Club trio to the tune of 7 1-2 to 5 1-2. Fox ringing up six goals to lead the scoring. Yale also is making a strong bid for the championship...
...Pinky Tomlin were due to appear. Mr. Mills does not permit such relaxations, nor the luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
...buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...