Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually the producers of the talkies are getting away from attributing vocal or musical qualities to actors and actresses that are not musically inclined, and having doubles do the work for them. In "The Trespasser", now at the Central Square, Gloria Swanson sings, but instead of making it appear that she is playing her own accompaniment the director was perfectly frank about it and had Miss Swanson sit down at a player piano and let this instrument do the work of the double...
...volume of vice in the U. S. Senate were proportioned to population, productive power or the total sum contributed toward national upkeep, some of those states which are now most vocal [against the tariff] would need amplifiers to make their whispers heard. Such states as Arizona, South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi etc. do not pay enough toward the upkeep of the government to cover the costs of collection, and states like Pennsylvania, hamstrung as they are by adverse legislation, support these backward commonwealths and provide them with their good roads, post offices, river improvements and other federal aid, figuratively...
Underhill is Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and a member of the University Instrumental Clubs. During his Junior year he was leader of the Vocal Club, and in his Freshman year Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Red Book. He has been active in work for Phillips Brooks House for several years...
This week at the Central Square theatre one may see and hear Al Jolson in a vocal movie called "Say It With Songs." The only reason that this picture was made at all was in order to give Al Jolson a chance to burst forth from the screen in many of his singing orgies. And if you are a follower of the famous "mammy singer," you should by all means go to see this show. If, on the other hand, you do not like vocal refrain every few minutes throughout the picture, this is not the show...
Among the Socialistic and notorious Harvard students circulates the rumour that on the day of the Army game the Stadium will see a demonstration against war, the Army, and West Point. Whether the demonstration will be vocal or pictorial or consist merely of the presence of the notorious students in the Stadium could not be learned at a late hour last night...