QUESTION What was the primary movie primarily based on a musical?
In 1927, The Jazz Singer marked the top of the silent movie period. It featured six fashionable songs carried out by Al Jolson.
Musical movies had been instantly fashionable and 1929 noticed the looks of a number of made-for-film musicals, such because the Oscar-winning The Broadway Melody in addition to Gold Diggers Of Broadway and Sunny Aspect Up.
On April 17, 1929, an early model of Present Boat was launched. This was not primarily based on the profitable Florenz Ziegfeld Jr-produced Broadway musical, however on the 1926 Edna Ferber novel.
Nonetheless, most of the songs from the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II stage present had been featured in a particular prologue that was added to the image earlier than it was launched.
Rio Rita, which debuted on September 15, 1929, was primarily based on the 1927 Ziegfeld-produced stage musical, with music by Harry Tierney and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. It is the light-hearted story of Texas ranger Captain James Stewart, who pursues the bandit ‘The Kinkajou’ over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, the bandit’s sister.
Actress Bebe Daniels and John Boles in Rio Rita in 1929
The movie was the primary talkie function for Bebe Daniels (Rita), starred John Boles as Stewart, and launched the movie profession of the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey. Its best-known tune was The Rangers’ Track
The movie was the primary talkie function for Bebe Daniels (Rita), starred John Boles as Stewart, and launched the movie profession of the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey. Its best-known tune was The Rangers’ Track.
Two different movies primarily based on Broadway musicals debuted in 1929. Paris, starring Irene Bordoni, debuted on November 7, 1929 and was tailored from a 1928 Cole Porter musical. Sally, which debuted on December 23, 1929, was primarily based on a 1920 Ziegfeld-produced musical by Man Bolton with some lyrics by a sure P.G. Wodehouse.
Paul Weston, Redditch, Worcs
QUESTION I’ve learn that wave mechanics admit the potential of a cosmos coexisting with ours. Can this be true?
What’s ‘fact’ and is that the identical as ‘actuality’? The scientific course of is to type a speculation that matches present observations, then use that speculation to foretell the result of recent experiments or observations designed to stress-test the speculation. If the speculation succeeds, then it’s accepted as present understanding, i.e. concept — successfully ‘the reality’ till such time as it’s disproved.
Photons of sunshine seem to have traits of particles in some experiments and waves in others, and typically each on the similar time. However we can not study a photon instantly; all we are able to do is measure the impact it has on different issues.
The identical applies to parallel universes or a number of dimensions. They is likely to be used to clarify mysteries on the excessive finish of physics, reminiscent of why gravity is a lot weaker than the opposite basic forces of nature, reminiscent of electromagnetism.
However except they are often noticed, they continue to be a mathematical gadget moderately than palpably actual.
Ken Wooden, Newport, Gwent
QUESTION Why are FC Metz referred to as the Graoully Dragons? What different unusual membership nicknames are there from all over the world?
French soccer membership FC Metz has two nicknames. One is Les Grenats (The Maroons), the opposite is Les Graoullys.
In native legend, Saint Clement of Metz vanquished a terrifying wingless dragon referred to as the graoully, which lived with numerous snakes within the city’s Roman amphitheatre and tormented the locals.
This legend symbolising Christianity’s victory over paganism is perpetuated as we speak in processions throughout which an effigy of the dragon is paraded in triumph by way of the city.
The author Francois Rabelais described being terrified in his youth by the graoully’s large eyes, huge head, large jaws and grinding tooth. At the moment it stays one of many main symbols of the city, depicted within the cathedral and on the heraldic emblems of the city’s soccer and ice hockey groups.
The Zacatepec soccer workforce in Mexico are referred to as the Sugarcane Growers due to their inexperienced and white stripes (inexperienced being the color of the native cane, white the sugar), and Spanish workforce Cadiz because the Yellow Submarine.
Different nicknames point out the main industries of the realm. Malaga are the Anchovies, a nod to the native fishing trade, and Alemannia Aachen the Potato Beetles, in reference to their insect-like striped shirts. Spanish workforce Leganes are the Cucumber Growers.
Extra unusually, Hartlepool United FC’s nickname, the Monkey Hangers, references an unconfirmed story that residents of the city hanged a monkey in the course of the Napoleonic wars, believing it to be a French spy.
Ian MacDonald, Billericay, Essex
