Word: waltzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it contains nothing so elaborate as the Gold Diggers' shadow waltz, and no songs likely to prove as catchy as those in Forty-Second Street, Moonlight and Pretzels has a little more authentic Broadway flavor than either. This and another advantage-that it cost Monte Brice and William Rowland, who produced it for Universal, only about $150,000-are probably due to the fact that it was manufactured not in Hollywood, but at Paramount's former (L. I.) studio which has been unused for two years...
...series of richly comic episodes wins the girl whom the baron intended for himself. Arabella follows Der Rosenkavalier in many of its details. The impecunious old Count puts on a drinking act as blatant if not half so funny as old Baron Ochs's. A richly-scored waltz dominates the second act, laid at a coachmen's ball. Rosenkavalier airs sprinkle the Arabella score...
...radio crooner's hummmm was last week officially recognized as an undesirable instrument of erotic suggestion. Banned from the national chains was a popular cinemized waltz written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Words...
...time by songs, which may well become as popular as the ones in 42nd Street, called "We're in the Money," "Petting in the Park," "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Forgotten Men." Dance Director Busby Berkeley's most decorative notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks...
...which William H. Woodin, now Secretary of the Treasury, was let in on the ground floor of Alleghany Corp. stock because ''We were thinking of you," Colyumist Broun chortled: "I think that Mr. Woodin ought to go back to his job of composing ballads. ... If the waltz king of the American Car & Foundry Co. wants something in a nice hot fox trot, how about 'My Little Morganatic Miss...