Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Hannah Chaplin, 65, onetime English music hall singer (Lily Harley), mother of Comedians Charles Spencer & Syd Chaplin; of internal ailments in Glendale, Calif...
Irving Berlin's deal was with United Artists Corp., to write a musical revue based on "Say it with Music," popular song of his first Music Box Revue (1921). Associate producer is to be George White (Scandals), who last week declared that he was quitting the stage for sound-pictures. So the genre of the proposed Berlin work is obvious, quite like the music of The Cocoanuts, which he composed for the four Marx brothers and the Follies of 1927, which he made for Florenz Ziegfeld. How much Composer Berlin will get for this work neither he nor President...
...Case Corp. (makers of Movietone) three weeks ago offered George Gershwin tens of thousands to let them use his tiresomely admired "Rhapsody in Blue" and to write incidental cinema music for them. He was cagey about terms and coy about the picture work. Although he publicly declared that he would not write music for the cinema, last week he was still considering Fox offers...
That Charles Wakefield Cadman was considering the cinemas came as surprising news. He writes orthodox music; the Metropolitan Opera produced his Shanewis. His principal resemblance to Composers Berlin and Gershwin is in his face: the three men have aqueline, bony faces, high foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks...
...questioned Alpinists who had tumbled over precipices. He talked with people fallen with disabled airplanes, with foiled suicides. From all he got a concurrence of testimony: that their thoughts were lucid and followed each other with weird swiftness, that they were fully aware of, and resigned to death, that music sounded. Some felt as if they were passing through rosy clouds. None felt pain immediately upon striking earth. Such too are symptoms of asphyxia. People who tumble from great heights are slowly stifled unconscious, dead...