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...Brought a New Kind of Love to Me and Livin' in the Sunlight (Columbia)?Paul Whiteman offers elaborate orchestrations of The Big Pond hits...
Keith-Memorial--Paul Whiteman in an attractive and serious screen revue...
King of Jazz (Universal). Although this revue is in many respects a piece of straight advertising copy written around Paul Whiteman, the personality it actually exploits and expresses is that of its director, John Murray Anderson. Whatever unusual, difficult, beautiful physical effects can be managed with the sound and color cinema in its present phase of development, Mr. Anderson has brought off successfully, brilliantly. Miniatures have been juxtaposed with full-sized sets in technicolor, as when Whiteman carries his whole band onto the stage in a satchel. Later the normal-size orchestra plays on top of a monster piano. There...
...Paul Whiteman weighs 248 Ib. His father was director of music in the Denver public schools, his mother sang in a Den ver choir. He got his start in Santa Barbara playing the violin and wearing a funny hat. After a tour of Africa with a string quartet, he worked in Tait's restaurant in San Francisco, was fired for not knowing jazz. He started a band of his own, borrowed money enough to take his men east where he got a job in the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City. His pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped...
LIEBESTRAUM and SONG OF INDIA (Columbia, $1.25)-Two oldtime Whiteman syncopations revived and richly embroidered...