Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milhaud: Protée-Symphonic Suite No. 2 (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Protee brought out the Paris riot squad in 1920, and still has bite today. Performance: good...
Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting, Nan Merriman, soloist; Victor, 6 sides). The Kid Wonder and a mezzo-soprano destroy Jerusalem. Performance: good...
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A great conductor recording first-rate music (which he has not always done recently). The result is a dazzling torrent of melody. Performance: excellent...
Nellie Bly (book by Joseph Quillan; music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Johnny Burke; produced by Nat Karson & Eddie Cantor) is the eighth musical in which breezy William Gaxton and quavery, befuddled Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing, Louisiana Purchase) have been starred together. It may also be the last: they are considering turning over their respective talents to Hollywood. As a farewell party, Nellie Bly proves a pretty dismal frost; it even casts something of a blight on the guests of honor...
...took Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg, Nellie Bly catches none of Nellie's speed or her story's excitement, and too little of the period's color. With its weak and whiskered gags, its dime-a-dozen tunes, and its plot that has a muddled Victor Moore competing for a rival paper, Nellie Bly is just musical globaloney...