Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of photographing musical comedies is that the camera's eye, when near enough to a chorus to show whether the girls are good looking or not, is only wide enough to take in five girls abreast. Another is that there is no adequate way of grading sounds so that the singing of the ensemble at the back of he stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well...
...time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus by all the 4,000 and most of the audience...
When the 70 units competed, they met in Manhattan's Mecca Temple. There they spent the better part of a day determining that the Concordia Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was the best Class A chorus of all. Liederkranz of Scranton, near neighbors to the Wilkes-Barrians, won second prize. Class B Winners were the B. & O. Glee Club of Baltimore and Ottawa Temple Choir...
...heir-apparent to the Van Climber (washing machine) millions elopes with a chorus girl. Parental displeasure is great. Public curiosity is greater. The Van Climbers disconnect their telephones, lock the crested gates of their country estate, refuse to be interviewed. For lack of facts, tabloids print lurid verbal composo-graphs, imaginary interviews, gossip gleaned in the Van Climber garage and scullery. Then the Van Climbers scowl and growl at the inaccuracy of the garbled stories, threaten to sue the offending journals...
...chorus of U. S. philosophizing, somewhere between the deep notes of John Dewey and the loud guggling of the Menckens, two voices are raised-Walter Lippmann's, young and clear, Ludwig Lewisohn's, old and sad. The two have much in common. As Jews, both men can claim rich philosophical heritage. As conscious Americans, both incline to intense modernism. As intellectuals, both prescribe an adaptation of Greek philosophy...