Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream parish," says Father Clement H. Kern. "I'm so lucky. Almost every seminarian hopes to get a church like this, but there aren't very many of them left...
...newspapers as though they were rare and lovely gems. But after his death in 1951, control of his empire passed to a businessmen's trusteeship far more interested in profits than in jewel collecting. In recent years, Hearst Corporation President Richard E. Berlin and General Manager Harold G. Kern have kept the bill collector from knocking too loudly by trading off, every now and then, one of the less profitable baubles from the old chain. In 1956, they sold the Chicago American. Three years later, they merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, characteristically...
...Composing is like fishing," said the late Jerome Kern. "You get a nibble, but you don't know whether it's a minnow or a marlin until you reel it in." Writing quickly and easily. Kern landed enough songs in his lifetime to serve 92 stage and 25 screen productions, but few people outside the music trade knew that he also piled up a surplus that was never published. Since Kern's death in 1945 at 60, the musical overflow-some 75 waltzes, ballads, rhythm songs, tangos and beguines-has remained in a safe in the Manhattan...
Last week the existence of the Kern subtreasury was made public. With the permission of the composer's family. Theatrical Producer Cheryl Crawford announced plans for a new Broadway play. No. 93 with music by Jerome Kern. The book will be adapted by Playwright Ketti Frings from her 1941 screenplay Hold Back the Dawn; the lyrics will be written by Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields...
...Kern's estate waited so long to cash in on the contents of the safe? "Miss Crawford offers the auspices we have waited for,'' said Kern's daughter (wife of Hollywood Producer Jack Cummings). "After all, the songs are no good in a bureau drawer." It was possible, too, suggested his longtime collaborator, P. G. Wodehouse, that the melodies-until now heard only by a handful of people-would turn out to be something less than Golden Bantam Kern...