Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saturday's Children (First National). The marriage, parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine?one of the best of all U. S. plays?becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
...Opera, was named as director of both the Curtis Institute Orchestra and the Phila delphia Grand Opera, replacing Artur Rodzinski, who has accepted the conductorship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The personnel of the opera company will include well-known singers as well as stu dents selected from the vocal and operatic departments of the institute. Except for the Rochester Opera which, before evolving into the American Opera Co., was a partial outlet for students of the Eastman School of Music, Curtis Institute will thus offer unique opportunity for students to start in the operatic field. Imagine the feelings...
...short performance. Among the numbers to be rendered by the Mandolin club, under the leadership of J. B. Cowin '32, are Brahms' Hungarian Dance and Baynes' Destiny Waltz. The Banjo Club, with W. S. Warner '32 leading, will play Officer of the Day and a Football Medley. The vocal club, directed by A. H. Parker '32, will sing Winter Song by Bullard, and German's Rolling Down...
...only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made out of it. Somehow the stretched narrative had to be delayed long enough to make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress...
...thus from scratch, no one could pipe up and point to defeats as the result of too few secret practices; and the team might regain some of that organic unity with the student and alumni, the loss of which has lead to the recent plaintive whining about lack of vocal support...