Show m fie r Looking nt at TODAY'S TODAY'S Solid Sold Sams and their slick chicks con can whistle Chopin's Valse In A Flat with almost as little tittle trouble as they can cnn Deat Dent Me Me Daddy Eight to the Bar You can credit that victory for tor good music to the movies Radio claims some of ot the famil familiarizing i Joe and Mary Public with classical selections but It t really has If been the sound film that has glam glam- symphonies and grand operas Time was and not so long ago kiddies when any music that wasn't hot hot hot-cha cha was considered long hair One sure way to lose not only your shirt but also your entire ward ward- robe lobe was to spon sponsor sor concerts or opera Both had Fed to be subsidized until the movies I came along and demonstrated ted y that by a new showmanship f Chopin kowsky and the Geraldine Farrar other old boys boy s could have almost as great a mass appeal as Jerome Kern Irving Irvine Ber Berlin er- er tin lin and Cole Porter Personally Id I'd like to own a piece of A Song to Remember the film fit m based on the life ute and music of Fred Frederic Frederic eric Chopin Chopin and and Columbia can talc take e me up on that hint any time the they y want vant to This film flIm which bases its ys s appeal on classical music Is not n o t only a treat for the ears ears' and eyes but Its It's packing folks Into the thea then theaters theaters wherever its it's shown When Cornel Cornet Wilde Wide Is at the key key- keyboard keyboard board playing any of ot the dozen se ie sequences e audiences are as thrilled as a s though they were listening to selections selections from this weeks week's lilt Hit Parade In handing out hosannas one has to toto toto to be directed toward Charles Vidor director That boy has gone gonet t places Cover Girl Together r Again and A Song to Remember Remember Remember ber all in one yearl I take oil off my latest chapeau In 1 salute to Harry Cohn for presenting g Chopin music Harry has cham sham championed championed planed good music on the screen be before before fore and turned it into a box office d jilt hit Daddy of 01 Them All AU Cecil D. D De lc I butte really is responsible sible Bible for introducing good music t to o the screen It was way back In the th e silent days days 1915 1915 to be exact exact the that t C. C B. B B lured Geraldine Farrar away awa y fr Opera co copany com company fu pany to appear in Carmen Cormen The Bizet music accompanied d Carmen when It was shown and an anthe d the combination was a hit When introduced sound sown to the screen In 1927 Warners e ex experimented x with good music Gio Giovanni GI vanni sang Vests la Club Club- Giu b ba be from and the New Net NewYork NewYork v York Philharmonic played the Pil Pi Pilgrims 1 grims' grims Chorus from Wagner Wag s I In 1930 signed Metropolitan n Thrush Grace Moore to play the th e Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind Lin Linone d one of the great singers of the last la st century Grace sang Casta Diva from Norma as well as selections selection s from The Daughter of at the Regi Reg m. m ment But when the film was com completed co It was publicized with no ac accent a c cent on the music The picture e failed Try Try Again After Columbia hit pay dirt with wit h One Night of Love the rush start steel started started steeled ed for musical compositions of qua quality 1 ity voiced Lily Pons madI made mad madeI madeI e I Dream Too Much in which she sh e sang Caro Nome from Rigolet Rigoletto t to and The Bell Song from th the e score of oJ Nino Martini 1 Mart ii sang arias from Ma Ms Manon Manon non non and Tosca in Heres to Ro R o mance Lawrence who had sung sun g only semi-popular semi music in The Th e Rogue Song was permitted to do dothe dothe d 0 the operatic type of selection in i n which he excels in Metropolitan and other films Alms Deanna Durbin has sung arias aria S from many famed operas Jean Seas nette MacDonald with a light opera oper g voice suited to the melodies of W Vic VIc- Victor VIctor a tor tar Herbert Derbert and Friml Interpolated Interpolate d several grand opera selections In her he hei r pictures with Nelson Eddy Unive Universal i t sal brought to the screen scree n with a full symphony orchestra In InA inA i iA n A Hundred Men and end a Girl dui dur during ing which he conducted w v sky's Fifth symphony and a Liszt Lis t Hungarian Rhapsody Metro will soon release Music for f or Millions in which Iturbi conducts conduct is the fourth tt t of Dvorak's Dvorak q New World symphony and other oth er music in this film Includes works by b y Debussy and Handel Yes the movies have made good go A d music a pal of the average citizen n. n Story of 01 Way Back Sack When I Dining with Mrs l Tommy Meighan n I learned that sister Blanche Ring RI ng was the first to hire Will Rogers Roger g She saw him do his bis rope act in Te Teas Tex Texas x as and engaged him for Wall Street et Girl He said he wouldn't talk to Opening night on Broadway be he was w as such a hit bit she asked if it he be wouldn't wouldn t say something He did he sat said d Thanks I Universal has a won won- wonderful wonderful wo n. n story it wants ants Merle Oberon Ober Oberto o n to do Its It's a Bruce Manning script serf oPt Pt called As It Was Vas Before I hear he ar Metro offered for It |