Word: romberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wine (words & music by Frank Mandel, Oscar Hammerstein II & Sigmund Romberg; Laurence Schwab, producer). As Playwrights Bella & Samuel Spewack explain in their current uproarious comedy about Hollywood, most popular drama is derived from the tried & true formula: Boy Meets Girl-Boy Loses Girl-Boy Gets Girl. No one knows better than Messrs. Mandel, Hammerstein and Romberg how exasperating it is to try to find a fresh method of stating this old theme. Last time out together (East Wind, 1931), they solved the problem by having their boy meet their girl in French Indo-China. This year their situation, for musicomedy...
Like the late great Victor Herbert. Composer Romberg, usually teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II, has rarely received worthy support from his lyricist. Setting no record for originality, Lyricist Hammerstein begins the chief serenade of May Wine: Out of a smile that I found in your eye, I built a dream...
...master of thumping anthems rather than gracious melody. Composer Romberg has nevertheless managed to do well without a singing chorus in this show, has written for May Wine a charming little waltz called Something in the Air of May and an appealing fox trot, Once Around the Clock, which audiences leave the theatre trying to recall...
Dining in a Chatham, Ont. hotel, Composer Sigmund Romberg took a fancy to the hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...
...This summer's repertory: Teresina, Rio Rita, Madame Sherry, The Chocolate Soldier, Good News, The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Beloved Rogue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Desert Song, Roberta, Lady in the Window, a world première by Sigmund Romberg...