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Died. Edward B. Marks, 80, publisher (Edward B. Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...
...productions somehow always smack of the middle-aged sentimentality of Sigmund Romberg, and like Romberg they go along in the same pleasant way, making some people happy and others disgusted. "The Clock," it will be said, is heart-warming--and it is, depending on one's state of mind...
...acting is natural; its humor (James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) is appealing; it does not run to absurd lengths. Yet "The Clock" drags, mostly because it is too full of little climaxes and its big climax is poorly timed. What's worse, Leo roars too loudly and the MGM-Sigmund Romberg-Reader's Digest flavor is too strong. And millions of people will love...
...Student Prince" is that four-star operetta. The music, by Sigmund Romberg, is excellent. The plot and the dialogue, except for a few insignificant lapses by Dorothy Donnelly, are amusing. The cast, considering the apparent shortage of males, is remarkable for its full chorus and, while not the best over assembled to perform the musical, does justice...
...Stimme." This will be followed by "Salvation Belongeth to Our God," a chant by the Russian sacred composer Tchesnikoff. By sharp contrast, the Glee Club will continue with "Schnelder's Band" by A. J. Mundy, closing with a group of two operetta favorites, "Stout Hearted Men" from Sigmund Romberg's "New Moon," and "Old Man River," Jerome Kern's classic from "Show Boat...