Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"--Brunswick recording. The hit tune from "Roberta" has Ruth Etting as its latest booster. Purely vocal and quite sentimental. The backing is "Three Little Piggies Went To Market." A mistake that Miss Etting was bold enough...
...Pity Of It All"--Columbia recording. Enric Madriguera's polished orchestra has a very smooth and pleasing melody to work on. Helen Ward and Bub Burnch sing. The backing, "True" is good as a Fox Trot for dancing, but the tune is not very catchy...
...Wonder Bar"--Columbia recording. From the movie of the same name. Emil Coleman's orchestra gives the tune the proper sentimental treatment; it is much better than the Victor recording with Freddy Martin's orchestra which depends entirely on the too tricky booming bass effects. The backing is merely filler: "I Love Gardenias" from the "Palais Royal Revue...
Fred Astaire pirouettes gracefully, his whirling legs rend the air to the tune of the Carioca. He taps one foot and then the other to the floor, and it is impossible to hear any discordance between the music and his dull thuds. Surprisingly enough his partner in the dances. Ginger Rogers, puts up an excellent front, and though she is not in the same class as Mr. Astaire, second honors are hers...
...world has agreed with King Edward. Cinema audiences hear it with half the British newsreels. Noel Coward made it the theme tune of his Cavalcade (TIME, Jan. 16, 1933). And though Sir Edward tired of it (he omits it from the list of his compositions in British Who's Who) Pomp and Circumstance has the lusty. red-blooded quality which characterizes the best of Elgar's music. When he was recognized by the throne, Elgar started writing too much occasional music. He celebrated King George's coronation, his visit to India in 1912, his recovery from pneumonia...