Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...TORCH SONG?About a night club crooner who joins the Salvation Army. Some able reporting of the American scene by Kenyon Nicholson (TIME, Sept...
...Harvard men. You will be known as Harvard men, and whatever you do, creditable or discreditable, will reflect on Harvard. You are following in the footsteps of thousands and thousands of others who have up-held her best traditions, protected her fair name, held high the torch of truth, and entrusted to those who have followed after the ideals for which she stands. This privilege is now yours
...Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
...torch" song is one in which the theme and lyric express the deep affection, often unappreciated, which the crooner bears for the object of his or her devotion. Such a song Ivy Stevens (Mayo Methot) sang for Howard Palmer (Reed Brown Jr.), women's wear drummer, one July night at a flashy roadhouse on the outskirts of Cincinnati. Howard was sitting behind a bower of chemically pink paper roses so Ivy did not see when he left, but she got the note he scribbled on the back of a menu saying that although they had been very happy together...
Dialog and action of Torch Song, refreshingly real, are reminiscent of the more serious works of Ring Lardner. The remarks of Actor Guy Kibbee, in the character of the dyspeptic undertaker supply salesman, should be long remembered. Sample: "All I've sold this week is two gallons of fluid and a grave lining. They bury them in their shirts around here...