Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wearing their National costume ?white blouse, black tall boots, red and black cap with four corners, raked with three brave peacock feathers. Said Critic Deems Taylor: "A very ordinary provincial symphony orchestra, with an insufficient number of strings and wind sections that play neither well nor wholly in tune...
...Significance. Mr. Isman's narrative is like an old music-hall tune played on a street organ. On and on it jingles, sad and gay, the song of the lives of those two derbied, Semitic Pierrots who still posture sadly, gayly, under a calcium moon...
Thus hearty Mr. Cochran, generous with dollars, jokes, and rich in both, came to own the piano. Immediately he presented it to the Association. Then the 18 artists played We Won't Go Home Till Morning. They improvised chopsticks; the tune was recorded on a player-piano role, auctioned by Mr. Damrosch to Cornelius N. Bliss...
...play, written by Howard Finney '26, begins with a chorus of scrub women who perform a typical dance to the tune of "Katy Ann", in a bookstore in Oakland, N. Y., where Peter, the hero, works in a book store. The part of Peter is taken by E. A. Sawin '25. During the first act Jake Worth, played by A. H. Stafford '26, appears as a travelling salesman who sings about his tonic "Hermicide...
When the "Electoral College Glee Club" had lined up and cleared its throats, it sang of John W. Davis' trip to Europe (now under weigh), to the tune of Bring Back My Bonnie...