Show DEAN OF OPERETTA romberg has composed over seventy operettas Ope and musicals sigmund romberg whose life story soon oon will be shown on the worlds world movie screens is the kind ot of man who makes highbrows highbrown high brows unhappy ile ha insists ho he Is a middle bro brow compo composer and that he Is happy be ing just that for a man who bears the impressive label of dean of american operetta it itis is a startling admission most americans havo have middle in ln music wrong with that he says in support of his statement that held hed rather write melodies with a sentiment and a tune that people can con remember and whistle than heroic arias that almost no one can call sing without weeks of hectic practice since romberg exiled himself to america 43 years ago to escape his parents determination to make a bridge builder out of hm him he is quite content to have the some same tastes as most of the rest of the people in the united states besides he asks what high brow achieves enough importance during his own life to merit a hoi idol A ma 04 1 n sigmund homborg Rem nom beri borg dean of et american operetta who has bag compo more than 70 76 state late and screen oreen op grattam and n us leals ills ilia most moat pop ular include bla time estu student SOP out c ell and th the deirl soni song lywood movie treatment of his career while he be is instill still around to see it wt I 1 romberg will bo be able to see isee it as soon as 11 hollywood lywood ff finishes the moxie it la Is now makini making 0 S 10 I 1 G M U N D really might have built some beautiful bridges if his paren parents tit had their way and he had become a construe tion engineer but instead he has turned out more than 70 stage and screen operettas ope and musicals among them standards me like maytime student prince and the desert song one or ortho the other of which is still touring louring somewhere at I 1 almost any time he has written a magnificent total of 2000 songs ulce like lover come back io M MB and he finished yett there Ther els is loosmore lot lots more smore music to be written lots of it in me and I 1 am writing it 1 he explains right now now he is composing anther another 0 musical which he expects to have on broadway this winter some composers compose their songs on a piano some in their head romberg composes most of his music on a hommond organ so that he coil cart get the effect of the entire orchestra as lie he tests a melody on the hammond he used to do it on a pipe organ sitting in sol gitary majesty before the gig gigantic I 1 instrument when the hammond organ was invented he got one of the first made since then he hash has been using it to turn out the kind of 0 music that fits in with amerl cas cals heart beat IT WAS IN i VIENNA that begot ho got his s first form formal al music education finishing his schooling in vienna he had to serve his term in the army Wh when enthat that was finished the crisis came ills his father though very musical himself was determined his son was going tobe to be an engineer and build bridges the peace peace maker in the dis dispute that arose was his mother who sugi sug i j that he spend a year in america before making a decision america had a lot affine bridges she figured and maybe her son would learn to love bridges over rivers more than musical bridges it work romberg came to the united states went to work packing pencils in a pencil factory for a brief period and then gok so a job as a pianist in a restaurant he be had stopped at to satisfy his craving for hungarian goulash that was the beginning the next steps in his career came in rapid succession he organized his own orchestra played at a fashionable now new york restaurant arid and began composing in earnest he alo never goti got around to thinking of the bridges again let the high brows build th the e bridges he dec decided ded instead rewrote he wrote enough music to make him probably the most p prolific to of the bIg tIme com composers posers in the theater |