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Unfortunately, even a galaxy of new talent plus Actress Keeler's husband, Al Jolson, cannot entirely disguise the fact that, aside from its personnel. The Singing Kid sticks with alarming fidelity to the tradition of its predecessors. Its story runs to formula. A song & dance man (Jolson) loses girl, money, voice, regains the latter two under the impetus of fresh romance. Production numbers, with the exception of one in which the Yacht Club Boys heckle Jolson for his Mammy songs, have a warmed-over air. As entertainment, it boils down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson...
...Chicago lately as a specialty performer by British Bandmaster Jack Hylton, whose orchestra plays at the Drake Hotel and over the radio sponsored by Standard Oil of Indiana. By this week, when Real Silk Hosiery was to take over the sponsorship, critics were convinced that an amazing musical talent had quietly turned up in Chicago. Young Templeton was born blind, of Scottish parents, on a farm near Cardiff in Wales. At 2, he played the piano, imitating the notes of a nearby church bell. At 4, he composed a lullaby with which his mother sang him to sleep...
...lustily that they drove the ball several times completely through the netting, resulting in a few broken windows. New nets have been installed this year, however, so it is doubtful if it is possible to accomplish such a feat again, even with such an array of heavyweight talent as the Sex now possess...
Vera Stretz had a bang-up trial. She was represented by stubby, truculent Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, famed for his defense of the Scottsboro boys (TIME, April 10, 1933). She had an audience of some 300 murder fans, including slinky Actress Tallulah Bankhead. A corps of some of the best talent the U. S. Press could muster looked searchingly into Miss Stretz's Germanic countenance, was not in complete accord as to what...
Yehudi held Hephzibah's hand as they walked onto the stage. But there was no hesitation once the girl had seated herself at the piano and made sure that her brother was ready to begin. At 15, the second Menuhin prodigy has a talent that could take her far as a solo performer. Like Yehudi she plays with complete concentration, an obvious respect for the music at hand. Together the pair achieved a perfect balance of tone, penetrated the varying moods in sonatas by Brahms, Enesco, Franck, so impressed Arturo Toscanini that he sent word backstage asking for some...