Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatrical producer. When he dictated his first letter she confessed she knew nothing about typing, wanted a part in his play. The part was insignificant but one day his assistant heard her singing in her dressing-room, suggested a cabaret. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" was a simple, fragile tune but the Boyer version was so expertly tender that she became the talk of the town, the chief attraction to many a wealthy tourist who bought drink after drink and fancied that she was singing for him alone...
Well cast and well photographed, Our Daily Bread is emotional rather than factual, directed by Vidor with a frequent eye to such devices as a shot of Mary knitting to show goodness, a shot of the wench playing a blues tune to show badness. Best sequence is the final one, done in the Russian manner. In it the community works furiously against time to dig an irrigation ditch from the river to their fields. Of this Director Vidor says: "I tried to develop it like a ballet. I aimed to get the effect of mounting drama through the movements...
...Ticket team of the East Cambridge Police force opened its 299th annual series with the Perfidious Parkers to the tune of a no-hit, no-run, and no-error shutout...
...were able to stand the gas and get at me. I then shot the grenade in a room and asked the men to go in. This was a real success. . . ." Remarked Senator Bone: "It would appear that Paul's activities give a new meaning to the familiar old tune 'Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...decided falling off in pledges this year was revealed by Francis D. Moore '35, treasurer of the Student Council, after the proceeds of three days of registration had been tallied. Cash donations remained about the same, with the Freshman class giving manfully to the tune of $1400 out of a total...