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Composer Bennett's opener last fortnight was a "music opera" based upon a fine old U. S. song: The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Throughout the opera, the ballad tune dum-diddled along, festooned with Composer Bennett's shiniest orchestral and harmonic tricks. Best original snatch was sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday...
This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...
Currently many a Texan sings of national defense. On a single Southwest juke box may be found I'm Lending You to Uncle Sam (sung by Bonnie Blue Eyes), Oh! They're Makin' Me All Over in the Army (Dick Robertson). Tall, slow-talking Red River Dave (Dave McEnery), who has written 200 songs, lately got off I'd Rather Fight for My Country Than Fight With a Wife...
...shown-the expansive interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers the Latin Don Ameche...
Medieval and Renaissance Choral Music (Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, conducted by Mother Georgia Stevens, R.S.C.J.; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). As glowing as a rose window, these early church melodies are sung to perfection by Mother Stevens' famed female choristers. (The Pius X School trains liturgical teachers chiefly, since women are ordinarily not supposed to sing in Catholic churches.) As result of a mix-up in pressing, however, Tenor Melchior (see above) displaces the choir on one record...