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...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remain unkind...
...heard the boy's story: He had sold papers on Chicago's South Side, bell-hopped at the Chicago Beach Hotel, sung in the Olivet Baptist Church choir. Mrs, Blackstone invited her butler's boy to lunch with her. There arose an argument as to whether he should go to the front door or around by the back as he had done the countless times he had gone to see his father. His mother telephoned the housekeeper. He used the front...
Pianist Maier's programs were as perfectly arranged for children as the children's Utopia sung about in the first U. S. performance of German Paul Hindemith's Let's Build a City. There was a program of musical animals (Saint-Saëns' "Cuckoo," John Alden Carpenter's "Krazy Kat"), one of dances. There were picture-book slides to illustrate Debussy's Toy Chest and the country where prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. Pianist Maier's assistants were all children, but none had prodigious talent. Little East Side children from...
Frida Leider is a famed Kundry, has sung the role many times at Bayreuth, will do so again in 1933. Painstaking, she studies hard, practices much, once spent a year perfecting one phase of her interpretation of Isolde. She sings in Berlin, at Covent Garden, went to Buenos Aires last summer, is a friend of Professor Einstein...
...Martial music receded as the frontier was driven back, and life in Georgia took on a richer note. Master workmen from over the sea built manor houses of English brick, and English airs were sung to the plucked melodies of harpsichords in great colonial halls...