Word: kern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Things You Are (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Musicians' music-i. e., most others will have to hear it three times to like the melody-from Jerome Kern's Very Warm...
Very Warm for May (music by Jerome Kern, book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd). First Kern musicomedy to reach Broadway since 1933, Very Warm for May brought out a glittering first-night audience. The audience proved much more glittering than the show. Kern's tunes were bright and strummy enough, but a raucous, epileptic plot made the show a bird that could sing...
Even such shrewd comics as Hiram Sherman and Eve Arden fail to be very funny, while Kern's prettiest tunes are drowned out by the heavy artillery of the plot. The show gets good only when the barn theatre is forgotten and some attractive youngsters such as Ingenue Grace McDonald sing and dance. But by then, unfortunately, there's no use locking the barn door...
...intriguing mixture of dadaistic dances and Jerome Kern melodies form the gossamer-like substance of "Very Warm For May," the new Kern-Hammerstein musical which began its Boston run last night. The result is most pleasing, for just as the incongruity of surrealistic ballet and fine music strike a humorous note, so does this musical comedy give the impression that it is laughing at itself and having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high...
...Grace-McDonald and Frances Mercer are attractive ingenues, Jack Whiting appears as an adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes that seem destined to play an obligate for this gay company for a good many Broadway weeks...