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Authors of Bonjour les Demoiselles are Private Roger Bernstein, 28, a pianist for Music Publisher Salabert (one of the jurors), and Jean Vogade, 48, pianist to Tenor Tino Rossi. The Gamelin song was concocted by Jean Rodor, 58, veteran of World War I and a professional librettist, and Corporal Paul Durand, 32, composer of a French hit song, Tell Me That You Love...
...step version, the Beer Barrel Polka resembled a polka about as much as Yes, We Have No Bananas resembles a pavane. And Librettist Brown's lyrics (written with an eye to Bible-belt circulation) carefully avoided all reference to beer. But last week the Beer Barrel Polka, topped the current best-seller list, with 357,000 copies sold to date...
Married. Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 33, a member of TIME Inc.'s London staff, son of the late famed Austrian librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier); and Lady Elizabeth Paget, 22, trainbearer to Queen Elizabeth at her coronation; his second (first wife: Vincent Astor's sister, Alice); in London...
...opera have had premieres at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, horse operas (movie Westerns) remain preeminently the American taste. U. S. composers keep at it, however, and last week a new U. S. opera, The Devil and Daniel Webster, was presented at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theatre. Librettist: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét. Composer: Douglas Moore. Producer: Robert Edmond Jones...
Captains of the crew are traditionally strong in heart and head as well as arm. No exception was Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard's 1924 crew captain. "Buz" Henry, who was also Ibis of the Lampoon, and librettist of the Hasty Pudding show, graduated cum laude, published a novel, married rich Harry Payne Whitney's daughter Barbara...