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...Worried musical observers report that Adolf Hitler is forsaking Wagner for such tuneful fluffiness as Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
...Adolf Hitler's favorite stage entertainments is Franz Lehar's light opera, The Merry Widow. Last week in Munich the Fuhrer decided that he would like The Merry Widow a little merrier. A telegram was sent to Cannes where lissome, long-limbed Marion Daniels was doing an acrobatic tap dance turn at the Casino. A special plane followed, rushed the blonde 19-year-old Californian to Munich's Gärtnerplatz Theatre where she gave a few new twists and taps to The Merry Widow's, Viennese waltzes...
...would be as good a story as how the heroine of Pygmalion acquired the poise of a duchess but for the fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
Viennese Waltzes (by Emmerich Kalman and Franz Lehar; Decca). A heart-touching musical trip back to Europe's 20th Century Golden Age. On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight. Some of the numbers-most of which come from Kalman's Sari and Gypsy Princess, Lehar's Eva and Zigeunerliebe-were not previously available on U. S. records...
...songs Rodgers & Hart have written together. Larry Hart did not originate sophisticated lyrics. William Schwenk Gilbert was 48 years and many a smart jingle ahead of him. Richard Rodgers is not the first man to write melodies that get inside of people and do something to them. Franz Lehar could still give him a lesson in Schmalzmusik. But a song is words and music, and nobody ever fused words and music more effectively than Rodgers & Hart. When Rodgers' melodic line expresses gaiety, sadness, humor, Hart's lyrical line invariably complements and fulfills it. The lyrical slant...