Word: melodye
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In Washington Gus went to live at the White House. One day the well-trained White House servants heard a burst of jangled melody from the East Room, hurried in and found Gus, who had taught himself to play the piano by a mail-order system, pounding out jazz on...
Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl...
Against scenery by Sergei Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar...
The von Schillings pleased Utica. Father George furnished most of the melody on a piano-accordion while Master Stan oom-pahed bass runs for Down the Field, Ragging the Scale, Christopher Columbus. Accustomed to learn his pieces entirely by ear, Stanwurt appeared completely at ease when Mr. von Schilling tried...
From the time Victor Herbert turned to operettas there seemed no limit to the inspiration which prompted one melody after another. The disappointment of his life was his failure to make a lasting name as a serious composer. He wrote concertos, cantatas, symphonic suites, all long forgotten. He wrote two...