Word: singing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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There are many today who would fill the place with patriotic dullness; John Masefield can, it is to be hoped, pluck the lyre of the Empire with greater else than some of his predecessors. The late Robert Bridges often refused to sing; may his successor follow the same path. There are more things for a Laureate to do than merely to chirp either at the royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet...
...taken this reviewer exactly twenty-one reels--or, in translation, three pictures--for the revelation to come. Which revelation consists in the single fact that Maurice Chevalier, playing at the Metropolitan in "The Big Pond", is unaccountably unable to sing. Doubtless, there are many of his minions who will be ready to defend him despite the revelation, but anyway there it is and you can't get around Revelations. Which critical appreciation of Monsieur Chevalier's vocal talents being summarily disposed of, there remains only a bit of a word about the picture...
...Warner). This uninspired reproduction of a good old show will be enjoyed by everybody who passed last year in such isolation that he escaped hearing, on radios, phonographs and pianolas, such songs as "You're the Cream in My Coffee." Georges Carpentier is in it. He has to sing sometimes, but he also puts on a flashy two-round bout with a light heavy named Tony Stabenau which is undoubtedly the best piece of fighting ever done in a revue. Best shot: an old gag from silent pictures in which, after taking a blow...
Hampton Choir. Coincidentally there sailed also on the De Grasse 40 musicians of a different color. They carried no fiddles, no trumpets. They were Negro singers, members of the Hampton Institute Choir (Hampton, Va.) bound for London where they will sing under the patronage of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and place a wreath on the tomb of David Livingstone in memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction...
...with Vagabonds. But if a Vagabond wishes to overrun, he overruns, and that's that. The dastardly deed came to the ears of this Guardian of Vagabondia and today he exposes the whole thing. Bliss Perry will not lecture Saturday morning at 9 o'clock but he is to sing his Swan Song to Harvard this morning at 9 o'clock and tomorrow in English 55 at 10 o'clock. When Professor Perry says goodbye, the Vagabond will be there if he can find standing room...