Word: sylva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muny" opera, this summer, has $77 citizen-guarantors, a backing of $103,000 and a roster of well-paid performers which includes Evelyn Herbert, Odette Myrtil, Katherine Carrington, Gladys Baxter, Marguerita Sylva, Leslie Adams, Robert Halliday, Alexander Gray. The "Muny" way is to have local choristers and dancers who work very hard for very little and get their pictures in the papers. For "Muny" opera some 1,700 seats are free to first-comers who arrive hours before curtain time, munch their suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every...
Take a Chance (book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack...
Since Lyricist Bud De Sylva left the team of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson a faint note of illiteracy has crept into the words of the remaining pair's songs. Mr. Vallee, A.B. Yale 1927, must wince a little when he has to sing...
...Come to Me" and "If You Haven't Got Love" (Brunswick')?The De Sylva-Brown-Henderson tunes which Gloria Swanson sang in Indiscreet...
Indiscreet (United Artists). Composed by the able musicomedy firm of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, and containing one song that ought to be a hit, this picture is not, except for moments when Gloria Swanson sings, a musicomedy, but a legitimate drawing room piece with a bright idea. Miss Swanson's indiscretion-a love-affair with that cad, Monroe Owsley-gives her trouble later when she is in love with the worthy Ben Lyon and finds her young sister in Owsley's toils. There are bad stretches of development: the meeting between Lyon and Swanson, a giggling scene with...