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Music in the Air (words & music by Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern; Peggy Fears, producer). In collaboration for the first time since they wrote historic Showboat, the team of Hammerstein & Kern has contrived an exquisite frieze of melody against the background of Bavaria, that good clean land with a song in its throat. The tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes...
...marching alumni on the turf below. The parade itself was too a small, largely because many of the alumni had Class Day afternoon scheduled as an afternoon in the country or on waters of long suffering Massachusetts Bay. The traditional element of the exercises was in the background...
...stormy background of Richard II is dim for readers today, and its Elizabethan undertones are lost, but the poetry remain, as Professor Matthiessen will demonstrate today in Emerson A at eleven o'clock...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
...William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandière Marion Davies. In the background a staff officer is apparently trying to keep a charging regiment of cuirassiers (copied from Meissonier's Friedland) from trampling the entire assemblage underfoot. Three years ago the picture was unveiled in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles by the mother of Theatre Owner Sid Grauman...