Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Munny Luncefowl he is at his best, and is supported by an all-colored cast of rhythm-mongers in a state show that should be violence to even the most sophisticated inhibitions, Miss Mabel Scott in particular, whose offering was announced simply as a song and dance, almost forces the Playgner to became lyrical; her technique might shame any of the personality girls since Delilah. There is also some glorious from a quarter known as the Four Glaute of Harmony, and quantities of dancing, especially by John Mason, Lenise Warner, and Hill Robinson...
...elope with him. He climbs the ladder of success, his loveliest music inspired by her memory. And when he tries to write an opera based on hate, to prove his independence of her the audiences unpolitely reply with catcalls. At the last minute, unknown to him, she substitutes a song lie had written for her. The result is that the opera is acclaimed. Her death soon after deprives him of all but the divine spark of her inspiration...
...accepted technique of cinemas about opera singers. Instead of discreetly presenting short pieces of music at climactic moments, it pours out superb tenor singing in a flood interrupted only at intervals, and not seriously, by patches of story; scatters brief festoons, long streamers and big solid chunks of song as prodigally as if it were the purpose of Producer Jesse Lasky and Singer Nino Martini to exhaust the world's supply of tenor music. True, Martini, after a few scales, goes into a popular piece Here's To Romance by Conn Conrad, but then he warms to this...
Genevieve Tobin and Reginald Denny are a rich couple who find patronage of the arts a convenient avenue to amorous adventure. Denny promotes Gambarelli. Tubin, to get even, sends Martini to study song in Paris. By the time she joins him here his tendency to regard their friend ship as platonic is fortified by his interest in a dance pupil, Anita Louise. He does not know that his debut at the Opera-Comique has only been made possible because Tobin bought out the house later finds this is so, and fails in his perform ance. He is back...
...reputation for really making the Jordah River Campus Reviews something. He sadly told his orchestra boys that from now on he was a lawyer. A year later he came back from a Florida law office, reorganized the orchestra, and began to use a melody called Stardust as his signature song. That song was published; and Hoagy left the orchestra to spend all of his time working out the tunes that troubled his sad soul. You know them: Georgia on My Mind, One Morning in May, Moon Country, Snowball, and many other mournful plaints that made music publishers glad. His last...