Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who doubted the prosperity of The Great Waltz once it left the airy reaches of its own Center Theatre in New York were in for a happy surprise when it opened at the Opera House on Thursday night. It is still the same lilting four-start musical that ran for a year in New York...
...rather slight story of The Great Waltz is built around the careers of the Johann Strausses--father and son. Guy Robertson lends grace to the figure of Young Strauss as an artist in love, praying for recognition for his music, and balked by a jealous father. Marie Burke is very satisfying as the Countess who sponsors his career and finally brings him his "great chance...
Last month Publisher Marks gave the genial oldster who is featured on such nostalgic occasions as the advent of Repeal a song title, told him to write a waltz to it. Metz went home, scratched out a tune on his violin. Last week his waltz, There's A Secret in My Heart, was publicly sung for the first time by Dale Wimbrow on the Eskimo Pie program over the NBC Blue Network. Theodore Metz was introduced to the radio audience. His latest song turned out to be "corny," smooth, banal. Publisher Marks predicted success for it. But many...
Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name...
Fine Arts: "Two Hearts in Waltz Time...