Word: kern
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Show Boat (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book adapted by Mr. Hammerstein from Edna Ferber's novel) is still one of the most satisfying of all musicals. Few shows can boast a more delightful score. Instead of seeming dated after 18 years, Show Boat is merely very nostalgic: it brings back the '203 through the ear and the '903 through...
Died. Edward B. Marks, 80, publisher (Edward B. Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...
...electees who are still in college are Thomas A. Lehrer '47, of New York and Lowell House; Saul L. Sherman '47, of New York and McKinlock Hall; David M. H. Kern '47, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Adams House; and Charles C. McArthur '46, of North Quincy and Lowell House. The September graduate is Wallace A. Mills '46, of Euclid, Ohio...
Died. Jerome David Kern, 60, dean of American show-music composers, whose half-a-hundred musicomedies since 1912 have kept the nation humming such lilting melodies as Make Believe, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and The Way You Look Tonight; of cerebral thrombosis; in Manhattan. A mild, owl-eyed little man with a head for business, he liked rare books and hated ostentation, strove to make his songs "charming rather than spectacular, popular without being vulgar," succeeded in making the best of them (e.g., 0V Man River) internationally loved...
Metro and Paramount are the most frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...