Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promise (by Henry Bernstein; Gilbert Miller, producer). In 1907 Henry Bernstein's first Broadway production, The Thief, featured the late Kyrle Bellew, ran for nine months. His Melo, presented in 1931, gave Basil Rathbone two months' employment. Never the author of a distinguished play, Henry Bernstein in his native France is nevertheless a distinguished playwright, an able literary psychologist, a sensitive observer, a careful craftsman. It takes a little something more, however, to make a good play, and that, unanimously decided Manhattan reviewers, is what Promise...
...programs will consist of selections played by members of the club. Officers of the club are; Greevellor W. Cooper 2G, president; A. Jas, P. Larus '39, secretary treasurer; Leonard Bernstein '39, program chairman...
...Conductor Nathaniel ("Nat") Shilkret. Last week this sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
...Song was made twelve years ago for Victor Talking Machine Co. by nasal-voiced Vernon Daihart, Guy Massey's cousin. At that time Nat Shilkret was Victor's musical director. After the recording, Dalhart took the music he had used to the publishers. Last week Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., which still has this manuscript, was positive Massey, not Shilkret, was the author. Guy Massey himself cannot be called in to settle the dispute. He died stone deaf in San Antonio in 1925. Meantime, nobody doubts that Shilkret, now musical director for RKO Radio Pictures, is the composer...
CHOOSE A BRIGHT MORNING-Hillel Bernstein-Stokes ($2). In a worthy successor to L'Affaire Jones, Satirist Bernstein flits gracefully from light comedy to stinging irony, never wavering from his determination to ridicule dictators in general, Realmleader Hitler in particular...