Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first the construction and installation of air conditioners was an expensive engineering feat indulged in by cinema "palaces," zoos, the U. S. Senate. Department stores quickly discerned an inducement to summer trade. Big department store installations include Hudson's in Detroit (a $1,000,000 job); Kern's, also in Detroit; Abbott's, Tulsa; Ayres's, Indianapolis; Filene's, Boston; Macy's. Manhattan; Sanger's, Fort Worth; Smith-Kasson's, Cincinnati; Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia...
...They all started singing. They sang "You're My Everything" with Harry Warren, "Charmaine" with Erno Rapee, "Body & Soul" with Johnnie Green, "I'll See You Again" with Noel Coward, "My Song" with Ray Henderson, "Of Thee I Sing" with George Gershwin, "Old Man River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little Irving Berlin was flying all over his keyboard with the most elaborate gestures. But people sitting near him could see that he was playing in cinema fashion, not touching the keys. When his turn came to solo, his colleagues started to snicker. Red as an apple...
...Edward Heyman, who put words to the music of Three's a Crowd and There Goes the Bride. Incorrigible, bandy-legged Charles Winninger is the comedian. The music is the most ambitious attempt of Vincent Youmans, than whom Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern are no better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck...
...jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush to fires." New appointee is Kern Dodge, 51, socialite, consulting engineer. Never a politician, Director Dodge has been an executive council member of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. His father James -whom Mark Twain called "the greatest story teller in America"-founded and left his son a large interest in Link-Belt Co. Longtime friend...
Unhappily, neither Miss Hall nor Mr. Metaxa have very attractive voices. Miss Hall belongs to that school of musicomedy prima donnas which signifies its charm and purity by assuming too, too graceful postures, willowing all over the stage. Most of the excellent Kern melodies seem to be thrown away in the pit as incidental music, but there are two numbers-"She Didn't say 'Yes'" and "One Moment Alone"-which are memorable...