Word: kern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Naval Chief Petty Officer Artie Shaw, 33, peacetime swingster, and Betty Kern Shaw, 24, daughter of Composer Jerome Kern : their first child, a boy, after 16 months of marriage; in Hollywood. Weight...
According to legend, the composers of Broadway's musical shows are one-finger pianists who can read music barely, if at all. The legend is exaggerated. If they had a mind to, composers like Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern could turn out a musical score complete from piccolo to glockenspiel. In the more leisurely days of Victor Herbert, they would have. But today, the writing of musical comedies, like the manufacture of automobiles, is a production-line job. The composer thinks up the tunes, outlines the continuity, sometimes even writes out a more or less...
...itself. No futuristic dream, Rose's postwar world is merely the good old days. Beginning with a riotous "Night of Unconditional Surrender," it shows a restored Gay Paree of foamy-petticoated cancan dancers; a restored lustige Wien waltzing to Lehar and Strauss; a melodious potpourri of old Jerome Kern tunes. Last comes a Victory Ball attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin. Making up in jubilation for what it lacks in taste, Rose's version of the Four Freedoms is four galumphing female heavyweights...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
...surprise comes from Richard Rodgers, who invades the domain which used to be the exclusive property of Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg. Instead of his usual racy tomfoolery and querulous laments, Rodgers has turned out a score that would be superb if it didn't sound as if it were from Kern...