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...Thrill of a Romance," playing on Friday, you get the formula musical, dull, plush, and empty. The main attractions here are Lauritz Melchior singing "Vesti la Giubba" in the lobby of a slick Western hotel, Esther Williams in some submarine contortions, and Van Johnson as his usual creamy self...
...Love in the Snow," Boston's latest musical romance, draws brazenly on a wide variety of sources, and imitates many more. It runs the gamut from Victor Herbert through Gilbert and Sullivan and Guiseppi Verdi, and ends on a climactic rendition of "Vesti La Giubba." The surprising thing is that the sum total is not chaos, but a lively and tuneful evening's entertainment. Though strongly reminiscent of past musical hits, and in part admitted cribbing, Ralph Benatzky's score is pleasant and melodious. It has to be, to compensate for uninspired lyrics and a book exceeding even the broad...
...Conn Conrad, but then he warms to this work. He sings Le Reve from Manon Lescaut, parts of Cavalier ia Rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Mattinata. He throws in two more popular pieces Midnight in Paris and I Carry You in My Pocket but soon comes up with Vesti la Giubba, and then rises to E lucevan le stelle in Tosca at the Metropolitan. Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink inter polates Brahms's Lullaby, and Dancers Maria Gambarelli and Vincente Escudero do their specialties...
Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change...
Victor's Raymond Sooy was responsible for the new version of Vesti la giubba which, with M'Appari from Marta on the reverse side, was put on sale last week in record shops all over the U. S. Raymond Sooy. who engineered the making of the original Caruso records, felt that full justice had to be done to his friend's voice. He consulted Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor's able handyman, who proceeded to memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra...