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...score is at 'times inconsequential, particularly in the case of such a rehash as the "Spanish Juanita", but it contains two lyrics that are very delightful indeed, Lovable You" and "Baby Blue" have not been glorifying the American phonograph so long that they have become as wearisome as the tunes of a year old Follies. These two songs are refreshing enough to justify the existence of the show, but they are not forced to stand alone. Miss Irene Dunne, who has yet to acquire a New York reputation and a forced manner, is young and exquisitely attractive...
...jazz melodies. Ever since he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue and collected great commendation from serious critics, his every movement is listened to with interest. In this latest, there are two new ones, Tell Me More and My Fair Lady, which will exercise the springs of many a phonograph. There is also a plot about a girl who pretended she was a shop clerk to see whether her hero's love were real. Emma Haig, Andrew Tombes and Lou Holtz are, next to Mr. Gershwin, the chief contributors...
...They needed a songbird in Heaven, so God took Caruso away" -so runs the catch line of a onetime popular song-a ditty which was scratched from every phonograph, mewed through the sinus cavities of every cabaret tenor who could boast a nose, caroled by housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan...
...seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor; he sings, with extraordinary results, a philosophic anthem entitled Let It Rain; he surmises that a talkative lady "must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle"; when confronted by a man who professes to have sprung from a long line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from a few docks myself"; when asked if he knows the King's English, he replies that so was the Prince of Wales. There is a Victor Herbert...
Last week, the Victor Talking Machine Co. (TIME, Jan. 12) announced that no more would the famed opera and concert stars under contract to them broadcast on the radio. These free broadcastings had not boosted but had decreased the sales of Victor phonograph records. Last week, therefore, the Company replaced great artists * on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...