Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hallelujah" scene is presented very effectively, and the singing is some of the best that has appeared in the sound pictures. In fact, the entire vocal side of the picture is more than satisfactory. The plot is an exact adaptation of the original musical comedy as are some of the scenes, but this is by no means unpleasant...
...will have nothing to do with this crackbrained scheme . . . nebulous and ambiguous except for its clear implications that it would mean a tax and therefore higher prices on food and raw materials. ... It is regrettable that the most vocal member of the Opposition is so remarkably addicted to silence today." (Broad grin from Churchill...
...poor girl misplaying the Duchess. There is enough of the Shavian keenness and wit to make it one of the high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...
...epilog was a jolly lampoon of contemporary foibles, political, artistic, social. Two constables debated upon the dangerous possibilities of two paintings, one blank, one hung upside down.* Three party leaders, a Roman (Stanley Baldwin), a Druid (David Lloyd George), and a Scotchman (Ramsay MacDonald), "fitted with clockwork and vocal powers," directed electoral addresses at Joan Bull (Britain's "flapper vote"), who had to choose between them...