Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evergreen (Gaumont-British) is an adaptation of the Benn W. Levy musicomedy which charmed London audiences four years ago. It effectively introduces to U. S. cinemaddicts Jessie Matthews, a personable young actress who helped make that stage production so successful. Evergreen's general excellence in almost all departments shows that British cinemanufacturers can rival Hollywood quite as successfully in musical films as they have, during the past year, in every other field...
Conforming to Hollywood standards in settings, songs (mostly by Rodgers & Hart), dances and costumes. Evergreen even has a backstage plot. It shows its heroine, the ambitious daughter of a retired stage favorite, becoming a star by pretending to be her mother. The impersonation, carried on to the detriment of her own intrigue with a young press agent and to the feverish anxiety of her stage manager (Sonnie Hale), ends when, on a gala opening night, she removes her white wig and does a modern dance routine which first alarms, then enchants her audience...
...emitted a shrill Nya-a-a-a each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly struck a high note. In New York's Central Park rollerskaters kept time to Goldman band music. The "pop" concerts started in the White Plains West Chester County Centre in which maples and evergreen trees have been propped up. In Westport, Conn., the Manhattan Symphony postponed until next week the world premiere of Secretary William H. Woodin's The Gallant Tin Soldier, gave instead Daniel Gregory Mason's Chanticleer. Nearby in Weston, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloffs backyard was rolled and ready...
Though no disturbance was reported last week at Brooklyn's Evergreen Cemetery, by rights Anthony Comstock should have been spinning like a teetotum in his grave. Viking Press issued the kind of book that was like a call of boots & saddles to the old vice crusader. Erskine Caldwell is a newcomer to the Viking list, a young author of the leftwing, hard-boiled school of U. S. fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also...
...great tradition. Among confused but brilliant conversations the story of the factory's building winds its way. The expropriated peasants protest; hairy saints are rumored to have come from the mossy woods to warn against the new regime; the workers riot; everybody talks at brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness the shouting workmen build Sotstroy. The babel of their confusion...