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Shock-haired, Polish-American Artur Rodzinski, conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, last week had his packjammed audience humming with him. Everybody knew the music - from Jerome Kern's classic musicomedy, Show Boat. Conductor Rodzinski, who rates the Show Boat music "true" and "great" U.S. song, last summer invited Composer Kern to give it the symphonic works. The result is called Scenario for Orchestra...
Although members modestly refuse to comment as to whether there exists a Gershwin, Berlin, or Kern among them, several have written popular pieces which drew favorable remarks from professional musicians...
...Chicago ribbon counter (Marshall Field & Co.) to a Broadway triumph (Show Boat). The songs she sang as the half-caste Julie in that show never grew stale though she sang them often. Even in the murkiest nightery, no audience was too tough for her to soften with Jerome Kern's Bill and Can't Help Lovin...
...Paris," and in the rest of her numbers manages to do more than her share of scene-stealing. Eleanor Powell, away from the screen for too long, taps and jigs effectively, although she isn't given much to do. These two, aided considerably by some fellows named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must have plots--is bad enough to be annoying, but unobnoxious enough to be ignored. Robert Young struggles to keep it going; the fact that he doesn't succeed doesn't bother anyone, least...
Conductor Paige has nothing but contempt for "sauerkraut conductors" who play a lot of foreign stuff. His band will give out Gershwin, Kern, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter, perhaps some serious U.S. music. "Blatant swing," says the League's hand-out (with the League's spelling), "and abstruse, ultra-modern cachophony will be avoided...