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...have to pass judgment since they had created it. Audiences will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn in her grandchild who falls in love with the drummer's grandchild who has made symphonic arrangements out of his grandfather's songs...
Coincidentally last week there rose at Covent Garden a ghost of another description. Seats had been taken out of the auditorium. Jazzman Herman Darewski (composer of "Whispering," "K-K-Katy") was playing for a ball, when suddenly he noticed his drummer drop his sticks, stare goggle-eyed into space. Darewski turned and saw (he said) an apparition of Wagner's Siegfried, helmeted and armed, stalking over the heads of the dancers. Darewski collapsed in a chair. Dancers flocked around him, said they could see nothing. But the incident gave rise to much whispering. It has long been rumored that...
...torch" song is one in which the theme and lyric express the deep affection, often unappreciated, which the crooner bears for the object of his or her devotion. Such a song Ivy Stevens (Mayo Methot) sang for Howard Palmer (Reed Brown Jr.), women's wear drummer, one July night at a flashy roadhouse on the outskirts of Cincinnati. Howard was sitting behind a bower of chemically pink paper roses so Ivy did not see when he left, but she got the note he scribbled on the back of a menu saying that although they had been very happy together...
...village priest: if he will introduce her to some natives, she will give his parish some money. Natives introduced include a Spanish painter who constantly kisses Actress Boland's hand; an English poetess and her Slavic, piano-playing paramour. After the painter compromises Actress Boland, a trap-drummer from Champaign, Ill., woos and wins Daughter; and after Citizen Hubbard has become thoroughly sick of the whole business, the Hubbards head for the homeland. Actress Boland, struggling with French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep. If a Methodist...
Died. Frank Gardner, 76. onetime Confederate drummer boy, mining promoter, good friend of the late Tsar Nicholas II and the late Edward VII of England; in Paris; of apoplexy. Consulting engineers for his great Boulder Perseverance Gold Mining Co. (Australia) were Bewick, Moreing & Co., of which Herbert Clark Hoover was a member at the time...