Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dear Sir, formerly called Vanity Fair, has nothing at all to do with either Thackeray or formal correspondence. It has merely to do with Long Island society and is just another one of those things. Chiefly conspicuous is the amiable score of Jerome Kern. Walter Catlett makes his first appearance after three years in Sally. Genevieve Tobin comes out of straight comedy to sing the lead with more or less success...
...Kremser Winter Song Bullard O Susannah Foster 5. Danse Macabre Saint-Saens 6. Deep River Burieigh-Jacchia 7. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 8. Songs by Freshman Glee Club: Australia Arr. by Hancock Ten Thousand Men of Harvard Murray Football Songs Arr. by Childe 9. Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern 10. Waltx. "La Barcarolle" Waldteuful 11. "Up the Street" Morse Fair Harvard
This evening's program follows: March, "Cruiser Harvard" Strube Overture, "Maximillian Robespierre" Littolff Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel Simmons Songs Fantasia, "Carmen" Bizet Largo from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia Rustic Dance, "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakow Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern Invitation to the Dance Wener-Berliez American Patrol Meacham
Sitting Pretty. A musical comedy by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from...
...Gauthier. She began with a group of eighteenth century airs from Bellini, Perucchini, and the Englishmen, Purcell and Byrd, followed it with a group of modern Hungarian and German songs by Bartok and Hindemith, rose to a climax with a group of American jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin, and descended through Schoenberg, Arthur Bliss and Milhaud to the end of her program...