Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: All congratulations for your definitive account of The Music Goes 'Round and Around [TIME, Jan. 20]. Especially astute was your perception of something missed, so far as I know, by all other commentators-the subtle connection existing between the success of that song and the incipient major trend in American music: the swing to "Swing.". . . PRESTON JUSTICE...
Rose Marie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is based on the sound assumption that cinemaudiences will pay little attention to plot and trimmings if they can hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in full voice. To this end, Rose Marie producers resurrected the highly successful operetta of 1924, added some new songs, framed it in magnificent scenery, let the two leads shift for themselves. Acting with considerable charm, and bursting frequently into song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor...
With Duke Oliver and his noted colored band furnishing rhythm and song. Kirkland House presents its Valentine Day Dance Friday night, February 14. Admission fee is $2 a couple, $1.50 stag, for dancing in the Junior Common Room from 10 to 2 o'clock...
...caught this picture, and Jeanette, before and after wandering about the great Canadian woods, does such things as French operatic versions of "Romeo and Juliet." There are also such incidents as the surprise appearance of large crowds to applaud private performances, and gum-chewing piano pounders telling outraged song birds to get hot, Toots, and compete with ladies who sing with their hips. These devices are strongly reminiscent of a young woman named Grace Moore, and it seems a shame that they should appear in a story with so great pportunities for pleasing freshness...
Arthur Hurley, the New York director, arrived yesterday to take charge of the show. Mr. Hurley is well known for his previous productions, of which "The Desert Song," "Anna Christle," and "The Fire Brand" were most successful...