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...negative qualities to recommend it. Its screen play, by Bess Meredyth and George Marion Jr., is unfailingly light-hearted and literate. Its score, though a potpourri of operatic and concert-stage favorites, is well chosen. Its cast includes Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce and Luis Alberni. Its star is Lawrence Tibbett, whose baritone voice is still the best vocal instrument the talking screen has presented to the U. S. public and who in this picture, his first in four years, is heard to better advantage than ever before...
...store where he is plugging songs. By the time he finds his way to Miss Louise's arms it appears certain that Martini has established himself as the screen's No. 1 tenor just as certainly as Grace Moore is its soprano and Lawrence Tibbett its baritone. What producers will do in the future for material to satisfy the public's new hunger for classic singing remains vague but pictures like Here's To Romance make it seem likely that before long the cinema, if only by exhausting the supply of arias, will create...
Died, Edgar Lewis Marston, 75, retired Los Angeles banker, broker, oil promoter, co-founder of Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co. and longtime member of Blair & Co. (later Bancamerica-Blair Corp.), father-in-law of Singer Lawrence Tibbett; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...Collier's decided to buy an hour on NBC John B. Kennedy was the staff orator, and easily got the job of putting on the program. He doesn't write anything anymore except radio lines for himself. You may have heard him with Lawrence Tibbett last year. This winter he is appearing over NBC with a big cast that will dramatize the day's news on the air, John B. Kennedy will be there to comment on the commentators and lend dignity to the whole affair...
...Tickets sold with a rush in Moscow last week as music-loving comrades lined up to buy seats for "the City of Cleveland's Orpheus Male Choir with Claudia Muzio, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli and Lawrence Tibbett." When it appeared that the old Soviet ruse of advertising performers who were not even in Russia to spur ticket sales was being worked again, the State Trust for Musical, Stage & Circus Entertainment not only disclaimed all responsibility but blamed Moscow newspapers for not at once detecting and exposing the fraud. "Persons with even rudimentary knowledge," observed the State Trust, "would know that...