Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls...
...Overture to "Rosamunde" Schubert Serenade Pierne Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Three Excerpts from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlios a. Minuet of the Will o' the Wisps b. Dance of the Sylphs c. Hungarian March (Rakoczy) A Music Box Liadov Children's Round and Dance of the Old Ladies from "The Convent on the Water" Caselia Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier A Comedy Overture Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...conductor, Alfredo Casella, who holds high distinction among the composers and conductors of Europe, will lead the programs this year. Several of his works, including the Suite from his Ballet "La Geara" and "The Convent on the Water," have been heard at the regular Symphony Concents, and will undoubtedly be found on Pops programs during the spring...
...Demi-Bride (Norma Shearer). Criquette (Norma Shearer), convent-bred maid of Paris, glimpses one Phillippe (Lew Cody), making his ardent way to another woman's heart in the park nearby. This is the man for Criquette. Though he is her stepmother's lover, though he looks upon her as a creature of the nursery, she persists in wooing him. By inveigling, him into a compromising situation, she succeeds in forcing him to marry her. As she walks down the aisle of the church, the unhappy groom notices that his bride by compulsion is quite a beauty...
...Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young man and goes away. There is very little plot, even less action...