Word: sylva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prim old-fashioned girls of 1930 will be regarded as funny. In 1980, however, musical comedies will still be full of jokes that have been doing service for years; songs will not have improved; heroines will be coy and leading men pompous. These suggestions spectators will absorb from De Sylva, Brown & Henderson's mechanically amusing musi-comedy. A theme which has been useful to H. G. Wells and Jules Verne they have executed in the fantasies of a tired vaudeville booking-agent. Just Imagine is much too long, and in spite of all that Marjorie White and John Garrick...
Moonlight on the Colorado and Don't Tell Her What's Happened to Me (Victor)?The first is the current favorite waltz; the second, by the old masters De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, one of the season's best...
Sued For Divorce. Lew Brown, composer, member of the musicomedy composing team, De Sylva, Brown & Henderson; by Mrs. Sylvia Brown. Allegations: that "You're The Cream In My Coffee" and kindred songs were written away from home; that her remonstrations were greeted with profanity. Alimony asked: $5,000 per month...
Thank Your Father and Good for You, Bad for Me (Columbia)?Flying High tunes by the famed De Sylva, Brown & Henderson combination, ably played by the Knickerbockers...
Oscar Shaw suavely appears as an aviator who wins a transcontinental air race and the hand of a delectable blonde heroine with an excellent voice (Grace Brinkley). The inveterate Tin Pan Alley trio of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson contribute one song ("Thank Your Father") which is likely to be favored. Joseph Urban has designed several salons which are totally unlike those at any airport in the country...