Word: schmaltz
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...schmaltz could have been dumped on with a steam-shovel, piled high and gooey. But it isn't. It's laid on gently with a medium-sized trowel. This admirable restraint makes "Knute Rockne, All-American" one of the better football pictures of the year, one of the better biographies...
...week: Woody Herman's Beat Me Daddy. Pianist Tommy Linehan and the rhythm section are outstanding, in addition to a swell low register clarinet chorus by Woody himself, with a barrelhouse guitar background (Decca) ... COLUMBIA has tried the interesting experiment of using a small jazz group to accompany a schmaltz singer, and surprisingly enough the experiment is a terrific success. Singer is Eddy Howard, and the band is led by Teddy Wilson. Coupling, Star Dust and Old Fashioned Love, features Benny Morton backing the vocals with some fine muted trombone. Also heard are Charlie Christians, Benny Goodman's electric guitar...
Audubon writings include sporadic journals, letters, accounts of his meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes...
...Remember Is You (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Schmaltz-of-the-month...
Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...