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Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
...dramatic purposes Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes are pitted against a wholly fictitious archenemy named Costello (Robert Shayne), who spends most of his time buying up vaudeville theaters in which the team might otherwise appear. In real life they had no such trouble. The Norworths sing the new Thank You for the Dance in an empty theater, to an imaginary audience, get the idea for their title hit on a moonlit country buggy ride. In real life Jack Norworth dreamed up Harvest Moon in a Manhattan subway train. Just as fictitiously, Nora tries to save Jack's career...
...Shine On, Harvest Moon" blazed first in 1907, distinguished itself by coming back 25 years later, not as a sentimental hangover, but as a tune so fresh and melodic that many a youngster thought it was new. Jack Norworth wrote "Harvest Moon" when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels, a long blue coat and a pancake straw. The World-Telegram devotes its piece to Norworth, now a stalky, white-haired man who sells cocktail biscuits to supplement...
Nora Bayes (born Dora Goldberg), a peerless songster* had four other husbands besides Jack Norworth (No. 2): Otto Gressing (No. 1), Harry Clarke (No. 3), Arthur Gordoni (No. 4), Benjamin Lester Friedland (No. 5). She died insolvent in 1928. still lies unburied in a common receiving vault in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx...
...remainder of the program includes the Theodore Bekefi Dancers in "The Life of the Dance." A large company supports Mr. Bekefi and Miss Robinson who are outstanding. Staer Kavanagh, Australian juggler, has little new to offer while Dooley and Morton, like their immediate predecessors, Ethel Davis and Mr. Norworth should stick to the field of musical comedy rather than venturing into that of vaudeville...