Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time impressing band-mistress June Clyde with his obvious merits until he gets a black eye in her service. That's the plot. The interstices are filled by views of various orchestras, Rogers tooting on various instruments, and amateurish hip-wiggling by June Clyde. There is a fairly good tune called the "Valparaiso," and a passable Spanish dance team, which, however, are soon forgotten when the movie returns to its theme of snuggle-wuggling, itsibitsing, etc. The Moviegoer offers no further comment, realizing that the freedom of the press has its limitations...
Theme was the thumping old Civil War tune which sounded out rowdily at first, drove its way through elaborate orchestration, occasionally groaning, occasionally sighing, never quite reaching a definite conclusion. Composer Harris had chosen the tune because it was what his father had whistled in the mornings when he went striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma...
Completely out of tune with the Record's New Deal preachment of "Spend! Spend! Spend!" the advertisement was signed by William Randolph Hearst who had run it in his own 28 papers and 60 others throughout the land. With no outlet of his own in Philadelphia, he had bought space for his anti-New Deal advertisement in the reactionary Inquirer. When Julius David Stern, shirtsleeve publisher of the Record, saw it there, he picked it up, reprinted it free, used it as an excuse for another of his stand-up fights with a man whom most other publishers prudently...
Lowell House took its second loss of the season yesterday to the tune of 33-0 as the Eelephants romped all over the field scoring at will. At the same time Adams House was nosing out Kirkland in the closest game of the season...
...Nordoff tricks Cecilia into believing that the way to the alter lies through the bed. Nordoff scores a Phyrric victory and is presently back in his wife's arms. All this familiar activity may or may not prove the assertion of the title, but it is performed to the tune of skillful and fresh dialogue by a company of thespians whose ability justifies their prominence...