Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undersigned readers of TIME are interested in the record of Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts. Your reviews of various Senators and Congressmen have been most interesting and we will appreciate it if you will treat Mr. Walsh's record and past history in a similar manner...
...true, though, that three recent pictures in which the musical numbers have been added, in the stage, rather than-the screen, manner have proved reasonably successful. They are "Rio Rita," "The Hollywood Revue" and "The Cocoanuts," but in each case there has been an explanation that prevents destruction of the aforementioned theory. "Rio Rita" is frankly a photograph of a famous Ziegfeld success and it has proved popular for the reason that it provides at small cost an opportunity for the general populace to see the work of a nationally publicized showman. "The Hollywood Revue" could hardly fail since almost...
...been so successful that such wildly inferior pictures as "Broadway Scandals," "Jazz Heaven," and "The Song of Love," while far from smash hits, seem likely to show a profit merely because they meet that popular demand for song and dance with a touch of the Laugh, Mrs. Clown, Laugh manner...
...example the episode when Mr. Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb and lethargic Swedish tackle becomes the hero of the battle because his sweetheart playfully pots him with her air rifle just before the ball is passed, thus opening him to tear great holes...
Compositions for this prize must be written for four or more voices, with or without solo parts and accompaniment; the words may be in any language, and either sacred or secular. The manner and methods of Mozart or Cherubini in their Masses is, however, recommended by Mr. Boott in its bequest...