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Rhapsody in Blue (Warner) is a finer memorial to the late, great George Gershwin than Hollywood, after its tinselly tributes to Chopin (A Song to Remember) and Victor Herbert (The Great Victor Herbert), might have been expected to accord. All the more praiseworthy because it deals with themes often fatal to good picturemaking, Rhapsody manages to portray a genius without groveling awe, to follow a rags to riches career without wallowing in melodrama, and to picture a warmly devoted, richly accented Jewish family on New York's lower East Side without slobberings of sentiment or catalepsies of caricature...
...Chopin: Music to Remember (Jose Iturbi; Victor, 4 sides). The four piano pieces with which Iturbi put Chopin on the cinema hit parade. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
Gypsy's demonstration was a success. With two good fingers and a thumb, she played Liszt, Chopin, Ravel. To mollify Town Hall officials (who swallowed the accordion but balked at her accustomed gypsy spangles), she appeared in a demure marquisette dress...
...canvas is broad, shifting from Chopin's native Poland to Paris or to George Sand's island retreat at Minorca, and finally to the various capitals of Europe, when the fever-racked young composer breaks the hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
Cornel Wilde, a much-publicized new-comer to Hollywood, is very acceptable in the role of Chopin, and Paul Muni as the composer's lovable, bewhiskered piano teacher gives the picture that certain touch which sometimes means the difference between a mediocre and a first-rate production. In a performance perhaps worthy of award recognition, he changes rapidly from pathos to humor and frequently lifts the action to heights of emotional impact...