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Till The Clouds Roll By--Review day at the U.T. offers what is at its best a technicolor collection of Jerome Kern's great songs. At its worst, it is only a little more awful than the various other film biographies of composers...
...award in U.S. Scouting-was presented to Songwriter Irving Berlin at the annual banquet of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...
...scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music, but turned it down to take a piano-playing job in Irving Berlin's publishing house. "I began running into people like Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans and the Gershwins. It made me want to write Broadway shows." The first Broadway show he wrote, Blackbirds of 1928, with songs like Diga Diga Doo' and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, made him famous. Jimmy confesses that he began to "rake in the loot...
Sally (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; book by Guy Bolton; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. and William Berney) constitutes almost as aromatic a memory of the Ziegfeld era as the Follies themselves. Anyone seeing it on Broadway last week must have guessed, if he did not know, that it had once been a great hit (1920-35). But though Sally still has an air, it shows...
...Jerome Kern score has not lost too much of its charm, and in such a tune as Look for the Silver Lining has not lost any. The dances, as arranged by Richard Barstow, at times have a gaiety that is both real and reminiscent. And there is something almost touching about the unabashed Cinderella plot-the little dishwasher who winds up as a hit in the Follies...