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Then to the stand stepped lantern-jawed, short-haired Ira Jewell Williams, who testified that his partner General Brown had never, never, in 34 years on the Board, considered or acted on any matter involving the Snellenburgs...
...brain. Doctors at Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital sent a hurry call to Dr. Walter Edward Dandy, great brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins. Gershwin sank so fast they had to operate before Dandy could get there. Next morning at 10:35 a. m., while his brother Ira watched over him, George Gershwin died. Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made the world sing his songs and who never, even in his most pretentious work, disdained the antic, impertinent data he had picked up in Tin Pan Alley...
...Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought a worn old upright, chiefly to keep up with a relative who owned one. Brother Ira was her first choice to play it. George showed more musical zeal, soon became the family pianist. In those days you could get a teacher for 50?. George had two years of such instruction, never a good teacher until he met Charles Hambitzer. Hambitzer was a composer, ambitious to teach...
Edward H. Ahrens, Jr., Laurence L. Barber, Jr., Owen Biddle, George W. Brown, John H. Burns, Alan B. Calvert, William H. Cann, Ira Chart, Fred L. Chase, Jr., Morris D. Crawford, Jr., Arthur K. Dacy, Arthur K. Davis, W. Tucker Dean, Jr., Samuel L. Feder, Bennett Frankel, James J. Fuld, Chadbourne Gilpatric, Stephen Helburn, Thomas C. Hunt, Joseph S. Isoman, John S. Kelly, Ben D. Kimpel, Edward O. Miller, James G. Miller, Lionel F. Miller, Jr., Edmund S. Morgan, Laird M. Ogle, John A. O' Keofe, Thomas L. Perry, Jr., Gerard J. Piel, Melvin Richter, Arthur M. Rosenbloom, Leonard...
Best dances: Astaire solo in a mechanistic routine in the ship's engine room; Astaire & Rogers plus a masked chorus from which she is almost indistinguishable; Astaire & Rogers on roller skates in Central Park. Best tunes in the slick George & Ira Gershwin score: They All Laughed, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call The Whole Thing...