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...inept. George Gershwin, more technically ambitious than the others, has more musically ambitious enthusiasts. Jerome Kern has never claimed to be a popular songwriter. Like Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, he writes wholly for shows. His charming music would fit well into the best of Viennese operettas. When Alexander Woollcott wrote his biography of Irving Berlin (1924), he asked Jerome Kern to supply a colleague's estimate. Kern was reminded of Wagner because Berlin, like the operatic titan, "molds and blends and ornaments his words and music at one and the same time, each being the outgrowth...
WHILE ROME BURNS-Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($2.75). Mostly reprinted pieces from Quipnunc Woollcott's page in The New Yorker...
...army. In 1918 he became assistant Paris correspondent to the Times. Unscathed by bullets, he lost a foot in a French railway wreck after the War. In 1922 the Times made him its official Moscow correspondent. Great & good friend of the late Journalist William Bolitho, and of Quipnunc Alexander Woollcott (who describes Duranty as having "a faint air of skullduggery about him"), Walter Duranty, 49, is small, baldish, quietly alert, enthusiastic, quizzical, brimming with unprinted anecdotes. He lives in Moscow with his French wife, infant offspring...
...Dark Tower (by Alexander Woollcott & George S. Kaufman; Sam H. Harris, producer). The mystery element of this frank but funny melodrama begins in a program note in which an actor billed as Anton Stengel is described as having been a member of Max Reinhardt's companies in both Berlin and Vienna who has been working in Hollywood and is just making his bow on the Broadway stage. Sly Polemist Woollcott (The New Yorker), who relishes a good mystification, must have enjoyed inserting that bit into the humorous murder show he has written with famed Collaborator Kaufman (Of Thee...
...given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza, a rich musical comedy personality, will be seen in the operetta Jerry. Dwight Wiman and Lawrence Langner are reviving Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Peggy Wood and Helen Ford singing the leads. George S. Kaufman, that perennial collaborator, and Alexander Woollcott have written a mystery play for Sam Harris. Philip Barry's new play, about the home life of some Boston Irish Catholics, is in preparation. All these and many more were sprinting toward the boards last week as the new dramatic season got really started. Six plays, half...