Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine (see above), I'll Take Romance follows a familiar cinema routine, its guiding milestones clearly visible from the outset. All along the dusty way are conveniently spaced settings for the Drinking Song from La Traviata, the duet from Madame Butterfly, the finale to the third act of Martha, the Gavotte from Manon and the Old Red Rooster arietta from She'll Be Comin' 'round the Mountain. The title song is a sweet-and-dreamy for the radio groundlings...
...clips them off, leaving only disembodied dancing legs. Reginald Gardiner, whose stage repertory includes imitations of ugly wallpaper, effeminate French railway trains, weltering bell buoys, contributes one soul-bursting scene as an aria-minded butler tossing inhibition to the wood winds and singing a tenor solo from the opera Martha...
Except for the Martha interlude, the music is the last complete score done by the late George Gershwin. (He was working on tunes for the Goldwyn Follies when he died last summer.) Brother Ira Gershwin did the lyrics. Catchiest number: Nice Work...
...Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet" to include the three foremost U. S. companies, for Jan. 2 an "Evening of Modern Dance" contributed by Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, Tamiris and Charles Weidman...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, to Jean Harder, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Mr. Ryan's 1934 marriage to Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppack was annulled. His cousin, Basil ("Pat") Ryan, was married three weeks ago while "full of North Carolina corn," to one Martha Barkley. 21, mother of a two-months-old child...