Word: henkel
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...Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler...
...introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing act, supplying much slang and local patter. The chief feeder to Fields is Jules Jordan, in the roll of Dave Loeb, attorney whom Henkel employs in his lawsuit against Tyler for the recovery of the rights to Moonlight Mama...