Word: tenoritis
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...Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from the tenor of the book by Max Miller, from which it was adapted by Wells Root, I Cover the Waterfront is a sullen atmospheric melodrama, interesting except in banal sequences which show the reporter abusing his managing editor...
...follow, the expert Wagnerian performers who saved the past season from out & out disaster will repeat their acts. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse, who made a Metropolitan debut 20 years ago before he was artistically mature, will rejoin the company. Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...
...part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...
...Mine Tonight (Gaumont) is distinguished from most musical pictures of its type by a naive charm and the resounding voice of Tenor Jan Kiepura. Its story is a composite of almost all Alpine operettas. An opera singer, Enrico Ferraro (Kiepura) escapes his domineering female manager, goes off holidaying in a Swiss village. There, just as his identity is about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger...
...Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura, who sang with the Chicago Civic Opera two years ago, has immense assurance and an infectious smile which are acceptable substitutes for acting ability. His voice, which loses none of its quality in recording, is so pleasant that you do not object to almost incessant renditions of the picture's otherwise unremarkable waltz theme song. Be Mine Tonight was first made in German by UFA. Gaumont-British sent a supporting cast to Berlin to remake it in English. Universal liked the British version-directed by Russian Director Anatole Litwak-enough...