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...Dorothy Kern Hallowell. When Dr. Hallowell visited her adopted son, wounded in the shooting, he screamed: "Get away from here. I want to die alone...
...dearth of talent makes the situation worse. If tomorrow a call went out from the publishers for sophisticated, original songs, they probably would get few more than their current annual handful. During the twenties, which started off with Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern already established, every year or two along came new talent such as the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and Vincent Youmans. Suddenly the rain stopped, and today, with occasional exceptions, Rodgers, Berlin, and Porter write the best songs and the biggest hits. Kern, Gershwin, and Youmans are dead: the others can't write music forever. Somebody...
...Corp. to use Zenith's ready-made distributing organization. By this stroke M-G-M got entry into the many phonograph shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...
Preoccupation with this overblown love triangle leaves the life chopped up into little disjoined parcels. But even this shattered plot would be endurable if the movie had been provided with an intelligent musical score--one item which even Hollywood seems to have mastered in such as the Gershwin and Kern biographies. Except for a few snatches of the G minor symphony--played by Joseph Haydn on the piano!--almost nothing of Mozart's was discernible...
...songs are the show. There is little scheme or reason to the way they are strung together, but they are there, done up in some of Hollywood's best whipped-cream arrangements, and spiced with song-and-dance people who seem to understand what Kern was singing about. There are plain actors and a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," but the best idea is to sit back, close your eyes and just listen to the music. You won't miss a thing...