Word: romberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl in Pink Tights (music & lyrics by Sigmund Romberg and Leo Robin; book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields) deserves credit for a good deed: it brought Renee Jeanmaire, of France and Hollywood, to Broadway. Impishly black-eyed, boyishly black-haired, seductively black-silk-stockinged, she is an expert and charming dancer, an inexpert and amusing singer, an explosive personality, and a very bright asset of a decidedly dull show...
...Girl loiters through a book burdened with one of those musicomedy love stories, and barnacled with scores of those jokes that are written in collaboration, as though no one writer cared to take the blame. It sprawls through a succession of Sigmund Romberg songs, all just sufficiently tuneful to sound like the same tune. In the face of this, the brighter bits-the acting of London's Charles Goldner, a ditty called Up in the Elevated Railway, some of Agnes de Mille's dance routines and most of Eldon Elder's sets-fail to count...
Music in the Air (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Works of Sigmund Romberg...
...Sweethearts), Franz Lehar, Oscar Straus and Sigmund Romberg (see above); in Manhattan...
Died. Sigmund Romberg, 64, who filled the world's ear with the melodies from more than 2,000 songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked...