Word: yawpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than pleasantly, mediocre but for the unshakable British talent for investing bit-players at telephones, extras at lifeboat drill, and even the leading players with vitality, intelligence and a nodding acquaintance with actual life...
...Hartman's 1918 Variety notice of the Elsie Janis A.E.F. camp show, epitomizes the tone of troop entertainment in World War I. What it lacked in polish it more than made up in razzmatazz. Forthright, gangling, cartwheeling Elsie Janis was the greatest favorite of them all. Her persistent yawp "Are we downhearted?" was rarely if ever answered incorrectly. Greatest band-greater even than Sousa's -was Jim Europe's Negro aggregation which, at a bands-of-all-nations celebration in Paris, stopped the show with St. Louis Blues...
...monopoly of it. Wrote Wallace E. Pratt, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey: finding oil requires a "delicate synchronization of science, machinery, and the human equation" that is peculiarly American. His new book, Oil in the Earth (University of Kansas Press; $1), is a yawp in praise of the U.S. "wildcatter...
...clearly discernible whole. Still, for what they are, the effects, caused by a varied and beautifully recorded percussion and passionate inter-jections from the chorus, are extremely striking. Also effective is "The Ox-Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic Houston with plenty of barbaric yawp. The song is impressive even if you don't care for barbaric yawp; if you do, it's doubly powerful. The last selection in the album, "Quatuor" for flute, harp, celesta, and women's voices, is something of a disappointment. Written during a period of strong Debussy influence...
Walter Whitman Jr., the gusty, grey poet of Brooklyn, N.Y., poured his "barbaric yawp" over the world in bushels of verse which he called Leaves of Grass. Last week Manhattan's Associated American Artists' Galleries put on view ten paintings, 20 drawings commissioned by the Book-of-the-Month Club for a $5 edition of Leaves of Grass. The illustrations were made by Lewis C. Daniel, 38, a tall, rangy, black-haired artist and teacher at Cooper Union who looks something like the men Walt Whitman apostrophized...