Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doctor Rhythm (Paramount), which enjoys the services of Crooner Bing Crosby, British Mimic Beatrice Lillie, and a rare collection of cinemerry-andrews, is a tittery tuning-up of 0. Henry's fable, The Badge of Policeman O'Roon. At its best when Comedian Crosby is singing his two hit songs, On the Sentimental Side and My Heart Is Taking Lessons, it also puts a good foot forward with a breathless gypsy dance. But whether Actress Lillie's brand of humor is obvious enough for cinema tastes is an open question which Doctor Rhythm leaves still unanswered...
...English-speaking stage for her merciless take-offs of less sophisticated darlings. Her first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons. But to many cinemagoers her primping, shimmy-shaking travesty on the leather-lunged school of hot-cha singing may seem less...
...Rhythm," a leavened version of O. Henry's "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon," bases its claim for attention on the physical vigor, imperviousness to hard falls, and mobile face of Beatrice Lillie. The action spirals about the efforts of Lorelei Dodge-Blodgett (Miss Lillie) and Bill Rensem (Bing Crosby) to wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera...
...STRAIN and WOLVERINE BLUES (Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Benny Goodman's Boys; Hot Record Society, 308 Fifth Ave., Manhattan). These rare and exciting discs, recorded in 1929, are repressed by the Society to illustrate "the rise of the Boogie Woogie and the emergence of the Chicago Style." Boogie woogie is characterized by heavy offbeat bass and repetitive melody...
Tonight there was no voice. But the flames, with their rhythmic rise and fall, seemed to be hearing one,--to be responding to every variation of its golden cadence. And the Vagabond, as he studied the rhythm of the flames, seemed to hear it with them, seemed to hear it crying, "We must take action to save the Constitution...