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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...
...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...