| Show DEAN OF OPERETTA Romberg Has Composed Over Seventy Operettas and Musicals whose lire story soon will be shown on the movie is the kind of man who makes He insists he is a composer and that he is happy being Just For a man who bears the impressive label of Dean of American lt Is a startling Americans have middle brow tastes In What's wrong with he says in support of his statement that he'd rather write melodies with a sentiment and a tunc that people can remember and whistle than heroic arias that almost no one can sing without weeks of hectic Since Romberg exiled himself to America 43 years ago to escape his parents' determination to make a bridge builder out of he is quite content to have the same tastes as most of the rest of the people In the United he highbrow achieves enough Importance during his own life to merit a Hoi- A M j. i dean of Amerl-enn who tins composed more than 70 slate and screen operettas and Hla most pop-alar Include and the lywood movie treatment of his career while he is still around to see Romberg will be able to see lt as soon as Hollywood finishes the moxie it Is now WWW SIGMUND ROMBERG really might have built some beautiful bridges if his parents had their way and he had become a construction But he has turned out more than 70 stage and screen operettas and among them standards like and the one or the other of which is still touring somewhere at almost any He has written a magnificent total of songs like Come Back to And he isn't finished is lots more music to be written lots of it in me and I am writing he Right he is composing another musical which he expects to have on Broadway this Some composers compose their songs on a some in their Romberg composes most of his music on a Hammond so that he can get the effect of the entire orchestra as he tests a melody on the He used to do lt on a pipe sitting in solitary majesty before the gigantic When the Hammond organ was he got one of the first Since then he has been using it to turn out the kind of music that fits in with America's heart IT WAS IN VIENNA that he got his first formal music Finishing his schooling In he had to serve his term in the When that was the crisis His though very musical was determined his son was going to be an engineer and build The peace maker in the dispute that arose was his mother who suggested that he spend a year in America before making a America had a lot of fine she and maybe her son would learn to love bridges over rivers more than musical It didn't Romberg came to the United went to work packing pencils in a pencil factory for a brief period and then got a job as a pianist in a restaurant he had stopped at to satisfy his craving for Hungarian That was the The next steps in his career came in rapid He organized his own played at a fashionable New York restaurant and began composing in He never got around to 13 of the bridges Let the highbrows build the he he wrote enough music to make him probably the most prolific of the big-time composers in the |
