Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story the King could take home to his wife & children* was about a French schoolmarm, dating back to his great-grandmother's day, who expressed regret that she had not known sooner of his coming. Otherwise, she said, she would have taught her small charges "to sing 'God Save the Queen...
...behind footlights. More of an 18th-Century tomboy than a glamor girl, Merman booms and torches away in her train-announcer's contralto, jouncing her personality all over the stage, giving the King the oo-la-lahr, then (in a glorious whirlwind finish) snapping back to Broadway to sing Friendship and Katie Went to Haiti...
...just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed up to look like the composer. But few people who go to see The Great Victor Herbert will give a tenor's whoop what Victor Herbert looked like. They will want to (and will) hear Allan Jones and Mary Martin sing Victor Herbert's lilting tunes with freshness and charm...
...They sing plenty: lyric bits from such Herbert operettas as Naughty Marietta, Mile Modiste, Princess Pat; Herbertian fragments on streets, in a carriage, at dinner table, in a Fifth Avenue mansion shaded by a big eucalyptus tree. They run through eight songs in a brief bicycle ride among the mountains of Central Park. Since Paramount owns the rights to individual songs only, producers had to create phony scenes to give the effect of Herbert operettas. Victor Herbert devotees may be surprised, too, to hear words sung to such instrumental pieces as Al Fresco, Punchinello, Yesterthoughts...
...least true to form, he's good! With only Judy Carland and Charles Winninger to help him drag a so-so cast through the script, he has taken the show on his own Napoleonic shoulders and carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction to the problem of smoking a cigar is one of the funniest scenes put on Celluloid in a long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene...