Word: melodye
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Contemplation of this social phenomenon was interrupted by the noisy arrival of that obsequious slave of the Capitalist State, the Fire Department. With misdirected enthusiasm they cast a damper upon the whole affair. They not only put out the fire but earnestly insisted that they knew nothing whatever as to...
One evening at the piano the triumphant waltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played, and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his...
To set the key for the film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are...
Louis Moyses, a very important gentleman with a long, full beard and a fat bank account, now runs several cafes of conventional night-club description, but his name and the name of his first cafe he owes in good part to Jean Wiener, the friend who played the piano. Poet...
Miss Ethel Waters is the advertised star of the show and occupies the featured part throughout. She still gives some of her blue, wailing pieces--those devoid of melody and manufactured in the lower recesses of the guttural regions--but on two occasions she lapses into rather tuneful songs and...