Word: kern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Help Singing (Universal) cost $2,500,000 to produce, has a Jerome Kern score, throstle-throated Deanna Durbin, and the evident fine intention of turning out a cinemusical as full of sunlit Americana as Oklahoma!. As such it deserves a pleasant fate, and may earn it at the box office. But it can hardly fare well with critics, even the most generous...
...tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for her first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses...
Divorced. Artie Shaw, 34, mercurial bandleader; by his fourth wife, Elizabeth Kern Shaw, 25, daughter of Composer Jerome Kern; after 2½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...summary: G. Sarshman; rf, Knowlton; lf, Coggan; rh, Curtin; ch, Mavor; lh, Coon (Stromberg); ir, Ruckle; cf, Potter; il, Pearson; ol, Kern, Substitutes; Omar, Klobyornson, Mable...
...start, the Crimson hooters got rolling in the second half to notch four goals and clinch the contest. Although the prep schoolers tried hard, they couldn't penetrate the Crimson defense enough to do any serious damage. The summary: G. Livermore; lh, Sternberg; rf, Corrigan; lh, Coon; ch, Kern; rf, Siller; or, Jessner; ir, Potter; c. Simitch; il, Gelert; ol, Chen...