Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 15 | Music Show Scores

MUSIC SHOW SCORES Sweet Swe t Adeline Hammerstein Hit I WA I t 7 1 L i c I I i 4 I os r 4 Iw i 4 h 4 il I 1 kr- kr r 4 Helen she's ahe I only an Why it its it's s Jim Th Thornton t innkeepers innkeeper's daughter everyone know knows Jim Thornton SP Song g Writer riter of P Past st Decade Appears in Popular lar Revue e. e Hel Helen n Morgan Has Good Role By GILBE GILBERT SWAN NEW EW YORK YORK Sept 21 1 NEA NEt NEt- I ur loved you OU its as is I n never vcr loved before When first I met t you ou on the village Gr Gr Green e en 4 In a n faraway generation the beaus ben s and belles belIes dropp dropped c maudlin tears into their beer as they slipped sUpped into the he close harmony of ot When We le Ve Were Were Sweet I And nd while an entire entre n nation ion gr grow grew sentimental oyer this S 'S song rg JS the he author author au au- nu- nu thor tho roved from gay bar to t. t gay barIn bar In Jn Manhattan cutting an important f figure figr g r ps as s he ho leaned an n elbow upon UlOn the o old d Knickerbocker or the tho Hoffman Hott- Hott Hoff Hoff- rn marx man Hous House m mahogany hOg hog ny This man mar about town upon whom whom transient fame tam w was c casting s Its Is spotlight was vas Jim Jinx Thornton vho also had to his r credit that venerable av favorite rito or of ol grandpas grandpa's time My Sweethearts Sweetheart's the the Man Ian in the Moon and Joon and and m many ny another M Manye Mans n ye years rs have slipped d. d b by Jim Thornton has become become- an an nh old man maniel ol iel mellow with vit lt fragrant raG nt memories of ot another era era He is slender erect and bright eyed eed eyen ye It If his hair hai- is thinning thinning-a a bit lt it He has been In and out of ot the theatre m many y times A Anew Anew Anew new new generation h has s come along with Its Is' Is vo-d vo vo o o It may may know w the tune of Sweet t Sixteen but Sixteen but the name name of or Jam James s Thornton has lias meant nothing t to this thi n new brood Wherefore old Jim comes walkIng walk walk- walkIng wale wale- Ing out of ot th the past past in Broadways Broadway's latest and mot popular music show Sweet Adeline to to- give the lads and las lassies les of ot this generation a brief picture ro of ot on one of oC the tho more genteel barrooms barrooms' of or tho the Spanish war Avar- period The Tho scene Is a a reproduction duclon of ot the historic or c HOf Hoffman House bar including the t o famous painting of ot the cherubs A number number of ot swanky young oung barflies bar bar- flies files fies arc arc pictures in their cups bursting Into close ha harmony mony from Um tim time to time Suddenly the tho atten- atten i of ot the crowd Is attracted to toan toan an an approaching figure that 1 asks s a a stranger strang ro hb Th crowd frowns at his ignorance Why its it's Jim T Thornton every Thornton-every- orlton C every everyone o on one knows Jim Thornton Thus does the veteran song ong on writer relve relive a moment out of ot his youth ou h. h And New New- NewY ew Y York rk being what it Is eU clings gs to f its memories an nn and gives him hima a mighty handIs hand Its It's Is Isone one ono o of oc the few e oc occasions where life uro has been made mado to reproduce duce itself itself- upon a 1 Broadway ay stage with an actor uron playing g g the role of f himself As in an n actor he lie does little I more than he did in life walking life walking in while all aU eyes follow fonow him and all nU attention switches s t to his comments His b best st known song We Were Sweet Sixteen was written by the way in Joe Smiths Smith's samous famous bar in n Fourteenth street which then was was the heart of ot Manhattans Manhattan's bright light belt In fact most of ot Thornton's Thorntons Thorntons Thornton's Thorntons Thornton's Thorn Thorn- tons ton's songs were written at nta a table near some celebrated ba bar S S This however is but on one of ot the novelties in Arthur Hammerstein's production prod cUon of Sweet Adeline the best thing he has done i since co Rose RoseMarie Marie Made He le has reproduced tho bicycle built bul for tor two to era er Hoboken which h ha ha has returned to to totis Its Is' Is beer beer after atter all al these years cars is s the scene for for the most part n But t the bit which places place this musical show far fat arid and away O lw above most musical shows occurs in the he last minutes of ot tho the first a acts act t wherein there is a a. n back baek backstage stage scene cere lifted from froni the days das when burlesques burlesques bur bur- were burlesques I Helen Morgan hio who has nas gone through ugh her hectic days as a n night nightclub nightclub nightclub club 9 er a a prisoner ei at fit the bar and whatnot appears as the daughter daugh daugh- ter of ot a German innkeeper of ot the Spanish I war var era Long before she undertook k this part word vord had drifted over from Astoria I L. 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I that Miss Morgan h had d' d graduated into the ranks of the su superior entertainers In a talking picture pic plc- picture ture titled Applause While this film has ha not yet yet been released the the performance of Miss Miss' Morgan in Sweet Sweet Ad Adeline lr hinc la is her finest finest and had most mORt sl sincere ere york work to dat date Jerome rome Kern the th grand old oid man manOf of f music sc scores scores- has given her her songs n in in the best Morgan tradition Whatever else she Ehe m may do Miss Morn Morgan has hag a 8 away away way o of or modeling her bet mouth into the them m most st tragic tragic- of oC designs quite q quite le a study Jn In- itself Isel And nd that excellent n Charles Charles' Butterworth proves prove himself quite quie the most most intelligent nt comic in these parts Also there is Irene Franklin who has come ou out t of hiding after acer ma many y years ears Alto Altogether ther what with ih scenery novelties i d and one onO thing or r another M. M f. f Hammerstein has has' given Broadway Broad Broad- Broadway way ju just t about as excel excellent t ta a mu mu musical mu-j mu production as 31 It is likely to see see this Beason season And since tho the ticket speculators report report a twenty w week weCk ek ekIn In nd advance pro prospective visitors would do dowell well wel to write rie t their favorite broker or pr pr ho hotel l agency