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...thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite. At least however this Krupa version doesn't get out of taste very often and doesn't have any trombone "tiger" growls...
...great deal to do with the way it is played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste. It is all very well to invoke the old formulate and say that Tchaikowski wrung sublimity from an anguished...
Engagement revealed. John Ringling North, 37, and French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey, 26, as his Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened in Manhattan (see p. 75). Said he: "If I may be trite, it was love at first sight...
What is there to say? The story is trite, dull, hackneyed, uninspired. it was fired from the slick, sleazy pages of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and it didn't have any other place to go besides Holly-wood, where it was enthusiastically hailed as a proper vehicle for you know who. It deals with boarding houses and mortgages and saving the old place by opening up a night club, and it was written by Louis Bromfield, who makes a lot of money writing about such things and who gave us "The Rains Came...
...enthusiasm for the picture itself. The story revolves about the eternal "eternal triangle" which is not handled with enough verve to justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love, is jilted, marries on the rebound, and unfortunately finds herself still in love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest best. Spencer Tracy...