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...World's Fair in 1883, and dies broke on Broadway amid souvenirs of his, the finest shows of the era. His life crosses Little Egypt, Klaw and Erlanger, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Lillian Russell, and started on their way such stars as Fannie Brice, Anna Held, Jerome Kern, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden of the New Amsterdam and produced the top in musical comedies like "Show Boat...
...sixth item in that series of exhibitions of sublimated hoofing which have made the team of Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire currently the No. 1 cinema attraction of the world. It contains: three major routines by Rogers & Astaire, one by Astaire alone in blackface; six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly by the ex-fianc...
...Showboat" in any form will always be welcomed by lovers of Jerome Kern music; it has been revived on the stage at least once, and this is the second screen adaptation. This present attempt has an immense advantage over the earlier one, since the music is played and sung as it should be, and not whanged out on a piano in the orchestra pit. The old favorites are all presented in a very pleasing score, sung by some of the original cast and by the capable Irene Dunne, who is supported by Allan Jones. Jones has an adequate tenor voice...
Friday Evening, May 22 Roxbry Latin School Night French Military MarchSaint-Saens *Academic Festival Overture Brahms *"Traumerel" Schumano Fantasia, "Samson and Dellish" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti *Valse Triste Sibellus *Bolero Ravel *Selection, "Roberts" Kern *"Emperor" Waltzes Strausa *"Thunder and Lightning," Polka Strauss...
...bestowed upon it as his final picture before leaving Universal. Handsomely directed by James Whale, magnificently photographed by Leon Shamroy, it brings to the screen what has become a U. S. institution: Edna Ferber's story of 1926 which was the basis of the Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musicomedy of 1927 and an indifferent part-sound film in 1929. The latest cinema version, instead of following the Ferber book, magnifies the stage show, adds three new Kern songs to a score which still rests on many a U. S. piano rack...