Word: kern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winding up its 27-concert season last week, Lewisohn had also proved that popular music is still popular, consistently drawing more listeners than highbrow events. The Kern-Hammerstein night played to 19,000. the Gershwin night to 18,500. The best draws (17,500) among the classical programs: 1) Contralto Marian Anderson; 2) the combination of Beethoven's music, the conducting of Pierre Monteux and the violin playing of Yehudi Menuhin...
Lovely to Look At (M-G-M), a remake of the old Broadway musical Roberta (filmed in 1935 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) is delightful to listen to because of such Jerome Kern songs as Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, I Won't Dance and the title tune. The picture is also pleasant to look at with a 15-minute fashion finale featuring startling Adrian creations in Technicolor...
Wearing identification badges (crimson and white for delegates, cardinal red for bishops), they filed into the Civic Auditorium to hear Nashville's Bishop Paul B. Kern make a keynote speech which reflected the views of the 70-man House of Bishops. Highlights: the bishops are against Communism, U.M.T., and "efforts [even among Methodists] to regiment thought and curb freedom of speech"; in favor of interracial brotherhood, the ecumenical movement, and a wider Christian social program. Said Bishop Kern: "Original Methodism was a bold and challenging defense of the rights of the underprivileged . . . This social concern is in our bloodstream...
...expected to go after a second term. Attorney General J. E. Taylor, the only candidate so far for the Democratic nomination, offers no serious threat to Kem. But now Democrats are talking about W. Stuart Symington, the retiring RFC boss. Some liberal Republicans who don't like Kern's record, and a good many businessmen who normally would vote Republican, might go for Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist. There has been speculation, too, that Kem might have to face the old master himself, that Harry Truman might step down and run for Kern's seat...
With such Kern favorites as I've Told Every Little Star, In Egern on the Tegern See, The Song Is You, there is no want of melody. Hammerstein's book tells how two Swiss villagers-a father who writes songs and a daughter who sings them-go to Zurich and almost have a fluke success at the expense of professional theatrical people. The story lets Hammerstein make fun of theatrical temperament while showing the ultimate fate of those who lack it. But it plods as both story and satire, and a name cast-Jane Pickens, Charles Winninger, Dennis...