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Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
...Actor Alda never quite conveys the inward drive that consumed Gershwin at the age of 38, but the sincerity and as surance of the surrounding players focus on him a force and dignity that make the central character amply credible...
...Frances Alda, plump, redhaired, old-time Metropolitan Opera diva who retired in 1929, was charged in Manhattan's Yorkville Court with swiping 300 red ration points from her ex-cook, Mrs. Barbara Neill. Cook Neill, who worked only one month for Mme. Alda, claimed that she had handed over her ration books to her employer when she started, got back the books minus 300 points (a normal six-months' supply) when she was dismissed. Mme. Alda's attorney called the charges "fantastic," declared: "Even if Mme. Alda could settle this case for $50, she would spend thousands...