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Composer Rudolf Friml (Rose Marie, Vagabond King, Luana) was ordered arrested in Hollywood for failing to provide for his ailing 19-year-old daughter...
...been so many years since ukuleles and hula dancing were introduced to the U. S. that any attempt to revive the Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein...
...Rudolf Friml Album which includes music from You're in Love, High Jinks, Rose Marie, Katinka, The Vagabond King, The Firefly (Victor, $7.50) - Compiled in the radio-hour manner by Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret; presented by the Victor Salon Orchestra and a capable company which includes the composer as pianist...
...terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this handsomely romantic operetta based on his life. To music by-Rudolph Friml, in a story taken from an old best-seller by Justin Huntly McCarthy, Dennis King acts a Villon who becomes King of France for seven days, saves Paris from its enemies and wins the hand of his true love, Louis XI's niece. Although the entire cast, including King, caricatures...
...Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings, an energetic and willing chorus, make The White Eagle satisfactory if somewhat grandiloquent entertainment...