Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warner Bros, junior cinemusical company has a picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve...
...career of cigar-smoking, 42-year-old Irving Mills began on Manhattan's East Side. As a youth he was a page at the vaudevillians' Friars Club, of which he is now a member. Young Irving got into song-plugging, went on into shoestring music publishing with his brother Jack...
Fortunately their second song was Mr. Gallagher & Mr. She an, which sold 2,000,000 copies, 500,000 records. At the Club Kentucky, Mills heard Duke Ellington idly improvising, at once signed the Negro pianist to a contract on the back of a menu...
...luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
...been described by the New York Times as "lovely to look at and heaven to hear". However that may be, she has chosen a program which runs the gamut of musical history and comes out rather breathless at the end with a "Wild Song" by Olive Durgan. The recital should give Miss Swarthout ample occasion to prove the abilities so lavishly accorded her by reviewers...