Word: songs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotspot crooner and entertainer; and Hazel Forbes Judson Richmond, 27, onetime showgirl who in 1932 inherited some $2,000,000 from her second husband, Tooth Powder Tycoon Paul Owen Richmond (Dr. Lyons'); in Miami Beach, Fla. The bride had three attendants; the groom, who helped popularize the song, I Love a Parade...
Embryonic screen writers were told that a screen story to be successful must contain the stock formula of "Boy meets girl". Studio executives, she said, assign writers to build such stories around a star, a baby starlet, 100 beauty contest winners, a song, or somebody's wife's hat. You must be able to tell the director your story in one sentence, she warned, or it will not be considered...
Last December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
Last week the 1938 jamboree opened with a Graustarkian comic opera entitled Smeltania, followed by coronation of a Smelt King & Queen. Next day jamboreers jammed banquets, watched smelt-eating contests, sang an official smelt-jamboree song, learned to dance "the smelt run," a cross between the shag and the big apple. At week's end the festival wound up with an afternoon parade and a mammoth bonfire at a nearby river. To this last flocked natives and visitors alike, armed to the ears with butterfly nets, bird cages, sieves, kitchen strainers, washtubs and burlap bags, for the season...
...Cracked down on the cinema industry's penchant for hooking titles of best sellers to stories that are unfaithful to the originals. Hollywood got away with making Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm a Shirley Temple song-&-dance, Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life a story of burlesque shows. But last week FTC charged Grand National Films with "unfair competition" in releasing a love story under the name In His Steps, after the 1896 religious story of that name by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon which has sometimes outsold every book but the Bible...