Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only for its refreshing little plot, which consistently refuses to run the usual course of musicomedies. The standard Act I finale finds the Boy and the Girl bitterly disappointed through some unfortunate misunderstanding, whereupon one or the other inevitably sings a snatch of the show's torch song and wanders hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic, and then irritably pushes Miss Lake into...
...element in America's Sweetheart, although Gus Shy manages to be moderately amusing. But continual merriment arises from the excellent book Mr. Fields has provided. At one point a regiment of stately ladies in ermine appears. Pretty heads tossed back, they parade gracefully to the footlights, begin a song with: "We all got stinking last night...
...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...
Additional injections of atmosphere are made between scenes-while some extremely simple and effective scenery by Raymond Sovey is being shifted-by the appearance of a number of cowpunchers who sing old Western songs. This technique is not unlike that of Girl Crazy, the musicomical neighbor of Green Grow the Lilacs. When one overcomes the impression that Green Grow the Lilacs is a succession of song cues, it becomes a diverting presentation...
Then follows a most congenial scene in Miss Lawrence's Paris apartment, with brandy-drinking, song-singing ("Some Day I'll Find You," by Mr. Coward) and great fun on a couch. Says Mr, Coward...