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...arms of an ex-doughboy baritone and the hearts of Manhattan theatergoers. Of no small help to her was the catchy score by Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert's successor and equal, and the lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. One of their tunes moved the great Critic Percy Hammond to observe: "One song entitled Who? was attractive enough to indicate that ere the snow falls it will be a pest...
...Critic Hammond was in for a long pestilence. For George Olsen and His Music, then playing at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, picked Who? and made a sensational arrangement of it. Victor transferred the arrangement to a disc, and soon the exciting, eminently singable melody was the U.S.'s hit tune. Today it is a popular "classic" that has outlived both Marilyn Miller and Percy Hammond...
Virgil Garnett Gaines Thomson, 44, is a chub-cheeked, baldish, chirrupy, witty, exquisitely cultivated native of Kansas City. A piano-prodigious only son, he went to the same high school as Playwight-Critic Richard Lockridge, Contralto Gladys Swarthout, Actor William Powell. Virgil Thomson went to Harvard, where he wore kid gloves to scull on the River Charles, and played the organ in Boston's King's Chapel. He spent a year after graduation on a grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn...
Last autumn Neo-Romanticist Thomson became musicritic of the New York Herald Tribune. Since then the musical intelligence in that paper-often dictated by Mr. Thomson in his dressing gown (camel's hair, from Sulka)-has been the most readable in the U.S. Critic Thomson knows his stuff, and is entirely without self-consciousness in saying it. Instead of mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails...
...Halpert called her exhibition What Is Wrong With This Picture?, invited gallery-goers to fill out a questionnaire telling what they thought was wrong with each one. No two gallery-goers agreed. Of the Kuniyoshi one amateur critic wrote: "Feeling of left thigh seems vulgar"; another: "I do not like the position of the figure, nor the color of the flesh...