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...veteran Hansel and Gretel witch, Dorothee Manski, and some new stars, including Soprano Evelyn (The Medium) Keller, to help put her Hex over. Unhappily, she had failed to decide exactly what kind of music they should all sing. To many a mystified listener, Hex sounded like Faust one moment, Friml's Rose Marie another...
...Francisco last week, Patrice was taking another turn, and at high speed. In her first major venture into show business, she was lifting listeners out of their seats with a pyrotechnical performance of the title role in Rudolf Friml's Rose Marie. Singing with "exquisite coloratura," she made some of Friml's most overworked ballads sound good. Wrote the San Francisco News's Emilia Hodel: "We would have considered it impossible for anyone ever again to make us enjoy Indian Love Call, but Patrice . . . made the song not only lovely but exciting...
Died. Herbert Stothart, 64, top-ranking composer of M-G-M cinemusical scores (Rose Marie, May time); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A onetime collaborator with Franz Lehar, Rudolph Friml and George Gershwin, Stothart won the 1939 Academy Award for his sprightly, hard-to-forget score for The Wizard...
...first three: Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus); Sigmund Romberg's The Student Prince; Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King...
...Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...