Word: schmaltz
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...very best, these extra instruments were entirely superfluous to Brahms' musical intentions. At the worst, which was most of the time, they sounded like something Richard Strauss would have reconsidered even in his most beery moments. The percussion thumped, whanged, crashed, and tinkled; trombones blatted; horns bleated; strings dripped schmaltz--in short, all "Scheherezade" broke loose...
There is a certain amount of schmaltz toward the end of the picture, but it cannot be avoided in a movie of this kind. Robinson was a paragon of All-American boys (he had a newspaper route) and his story could only be written "in a country where every American boy has the opportunity to be President...or play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers." There will be some who disapprove of the parallel...
...Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked suspiciously of "Roll Out the Barrel." Fifteen minutes of slapstick were never more enjoyable as this bizarre ensemble umpahed its way through the finest of old Vienna schmaltz...
Call it corn, schmaltz or what you will, no Mickey-Mouse band wheezing through Till the End of Time could ever, by any stretch of the imagination, play anything but that...
...roaring pre-depression years, Arthur Schwartz produced "Dancing in the Dark" and later memorable scores for "Revenge With Music" and "At Home Abroad." Kaufman has hit pay-dirt consistently through two decades of the American tunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly bank on the smartness, sophistication, or schmaltz of another day, differently tempered--or perhaps the Messrs. Kaufman and Schwartz are, plainly and bluntly, "written out." Whatever the explanation, "Park Avenue" has tunes and situations that smack far too conspicuously of past playgoing...