Word: hal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...
...Crimson players are making the trip along with Coach Wes Fesler and Manager Hal Jahn. In addition to the first string five, Fesler is taking George Lowman, Lewis McGowan, Jack Dampeer, Jack Mason, and Jake Kuhn...
Among those entering are Captain Adams Carter, Dunbar Carpenter, Bill Loomis, Charley Rogers, and Hal White. The first three plan to enter all the events...
Congress (51st and Broadway). A cabaret with a gigantic dance floor and show. There are clever dance arrangements complete with harp by the orchestra of Bob Sylvester, who formerly arranged for Hal Kemp...
...jabberings of James Cagncy as Bottom, the weaver, effectively combine to detract from the real merits of the production. Omitting much of the superb poetry which is the play's chief virtue, the screen version still contrives to run too long (2½ hr.). Nonetheless, by grace of Hal Mohr's magnificent photography, which makes the backgrounds far more effective than any stage set could ever be. plus Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's brilliant arrangement of the Mendelssohn score, and the indestructibly entrancing spirit of the play itself, which is perfectly recaptured in some of the scenes...