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...intriguing mixture of dadaistic dances and Jerome Kern melodies form the gossamer-like substance of "Very Warm For May," the new Kern-Hammerstein musical which began its Boston run last night. The result is most pleasing, for just as the incongruity of surrealistic ballet and fine music strike a humorous note, so does this musical comedy give the impression that it is laughing at itself and having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high...
...Grace-McDonald and Frances Mercer are attractive ingenues, Jack Whiting appears as an adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes that seem destined to play an obligate for this gay company for a good many Broadway weeks...
Married. Elizabeth Jane Kern, 20, photogenic daughter of top-flight Composer Jerome Kern and handsome Richard Alan Green,* 25, Hollywood director, brother of Orchestra Leader Johnny Green; in Manhattan...
...orchestra played selections from Haydn's "Clock Symphony", a Brabma Hungarian Dance, and a medley from Kern's "Show Boast...
...hoped the public might extricate him. In March 1937 Hearst Publications Inc. (a subsidiary of Hearst Consolidated) and Hearst Magazines Inc. filed registration statements with SEC for $35,500,000 of debentures. But SEC never got a chance to pass on the issues. New York Civil Service Commissioner Paul Kern and a Manhattan accountant named Bernard Reis filed a brief objecting to the registration statements as "tending to mislead the public." Hearst kept deferring the effective date of the issues. Hounded by creditors, in June 1937 he took a train to New York and went to see Judge Shearn. This...