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...Composing is like fishing," said the late Jerome Kern. "You get a nibble, but you don't know whether it's a minnow or a marlin until you reel it in." Writing quickly and easily. Kern landed enough songs in his lifetime to serve 92 stage and 25 screen productions, but few people outside the music trade knew that he also piled up a surplus that was never published. Since Kern's death in 1945 at 60, the musical overflow-some 75 waltzes, ballads, rhythm songs, tangos and beguines-has remained in a safe in the Manhattan...
Last week the existence of the Kern subtreasury was made public. With the permission of the composer's family. Theatrical Producer Cheryl Crawford announced plans for a new Broadway play. No. 93 with music by Jerome Kern. The book will be adapted by Playwright Ketti Frings from her 1941 screenplay Hold Back the Dawn; the lyrics will be written by Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields...
...Kern Land of Bakersfield, Calif...
...clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane...
...years of total blindness; in North Hollywood, Calif. Famed as half of the vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later switched to straight plays and the cinema...