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...stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...
...this plot has recommended it to producers: it appears, not once, but twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...
...Navy has three big oil reserves, one at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, two more in California, in Kern County and in the Buena Vista hills. The two California fields are checkerboarded with Standard Oil holdings. The resolution setting up the fourth big reserve provides that the Attorney General may take action against companies now operating in the tidelands. That, of course, will take time. Standard and its competitors last week continued to take out offshore oil. Frequently in the past year they have got as much as 15,000 barrels...
...result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when the pens run dry, the authors resort to paleo-Chaplin antics like beery hiccups, pratfalls in a skating rink. Catchiest Jerome Kern tune: You Couldn't Be Cuter...
Indirectly, this same advice is given by Countess de Forceville and Marjorie Kern. One of the things that worry them most about modern marriage is the tendency of husbands & wives to complain about each other in public. Countess de Forceville, whose book is aimed at more sophisticated members of the middle generation, gives several hints on what a wife can do when her husband bawls her out before friends. She can ask him to tell his best story. If that does not work, she can answer back. Or she can become completely silent, or-"this is a blow between...