Word: boleroness
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March, "Los Banderillos" Volpsit *"Carmen," Suite Bits *"La Goyescas," Intermezzo Gransdon *"Capriccio Espagnol Rimsky-Korsler Alborada--Variations--Alboarda--Scene and Gypay Song--Faundango the Asturias *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabries Miss Miriam Winslow: a. Audalouse from "The Gid" Massenett b. Orgia from Danza Fautssica Turiar *Bolero Ravel *"El Amer Brujo" ("Love the Sorcerer") de Falke...
Built around, and sustained by the sensuous strains of Ravel's "Bolero," this film loses much of its effect when the rendition of the feature scene fails to come up to the mark. The recurrence of appealing waltzes and tangoes with the accomplished dancing of George Raft, Carole Lombard, and Frances Drake, and the absence of leg extravaganzas and water scenes, combine to make it a picture considerably above the average of musical revues...
Returning from the war with his heart and lungs crippled, Raft rejects the doctor's counsel and continues his dancing. When his new partner fails him on the opening night, Helen consents to substitute, and to dance the Bolero again. Preparing to give an encore, he suffers a heart attack amid the applause, and expires in an unconvincing dressing-room scene...
...insertion of feather-shrouded Sally Rand's box-office appeal adds little to the picture, but her name partly obscures the failings of her unadapted voice and faintly suggestive fan dance. Anachronous are the use of 1934 slang in pre-war times, and the fact that the Bolero was written...
University--"Bolero". George Raft and Carole Lombard in a colorful, musical movie featuring Ravel's aphrodisiac masterpiece. The music by the way is played too fast. "Six of a Kind". Charlie Ruggles nonsense to relieve weary eyes. W. C. Fields steals the show...