Word: kern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arnett MacKennan, Gordon and Revel of Harvard's song-writing world, are quite pleased at being asked to join the famous ASCAP. As full fledged professionals (Mills Music, Inc. bought five of their Hasty Pudding songs) they can now join the society headed by such shining lights as Jerome Kern, Berlin, Gershwin, Walter Donaldson and others. Quite an honor, too, as well as being profitable. If the boys keep at it and keep turning out hits the way they've been doing they'll be drawing down big money soon. . . . Paging Brooks Bowman...
...with more discretion than when the first gold rushers went West. Each studio has proven experts on its staff, men who really earn salaries running as high as $1,500 per week. RKO not only lured Berlin away from Broadway but it also has a special contract with Jerome Kern (Roberta, I Dream Too Much), pays so well for his curving melodies that he has already recovered the fortune he lost in Depression. Despite their rich earnings, Berlin and Kern have remained unaffected by Hollywood's glitter. Kern still refuses to buy a new hat, begs old ones from...
...played by a pit full of musicians. He gets thundering effects while writing his music in his penthouse on Manhattan's Park Avenue by an arrangement which permits him to play a piano and an organ at the same time. More like ponderous Rudolf Friml than graceful Jerome Kern, ''Rommy" Romberg is probably the best-known second-flight popular composer in the world...
...usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very 'ot." The picture also introduces blandly comic Eric Blore (Top Haf) and an amiable seal. Good shot: Blore & seal gazing...
...Methodist Protestants were headed by their president, Dr. John Calvin Broomfield of Pittsburgh. Also on hand to help along the cause of church peace & unity were such irenic Southern Bishops as John Monroe Moore of Dallas, William Newman Ainsworth of Macon, Arthur James Moore of San Francisco, Paul Bentley Kern of Greensboro, such irenic Northern Bishops as Frederick DeLand Leete of Omaha and Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington...