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...Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...
...year's best, especially for anyone who thinks that musical pleasure varies as the number and power of the musical ideas in a work and not as the amount of noise produced. The program lists two famous quintets, and at least one very great one; the popular Brahms Quintet opus 34, intricate, solid, sombre, and lyrical, a thoroughly German piece of music with all the best qualities of the German classical tradition...
...accuse poor Mr. DeMille of doing its casting; thirty minutes of this opus will convince anyone that its parts were dished out by either the neighborhood horsedoctor or Mickey Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...
Despite its changes in talent, Basin Street holds to its original idea, contrasting proper jazz with modern arrangements, needling the long-haired musicologists, giving original readings of such compositions as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left." The musicianship is sound; NBC Symphony players willingly take part, and well-known guest musicians need no fat fees as lure. The program's appeal was demonstrated when one week's script warned that Basin Street might be lost in a network budget cut and brazenly asked for letters to prove its popularity. ("If you must write two letters, be sure...
...tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...