#Buddy de Sylva

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Lew Brown, Belatedly

I don’t know how such things happen, but somehow I managed to do posts on Ray Henderson and Buddy De Sylva a decade ago, but their songwriting partner Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein, 1893-1958) done fell through the cracks. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Brown moved to New York when he was five. He was a lyricist; how impressive that English was his second language! He began co-writing songs for Tin Pan…

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Awesome April ♡ 16

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In Variety, December 6, 1932: an ad for Take a Chance, starring Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, and Jack Whiting.

from Tom Samuels on Broadway Remembered, Facebook

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So I looked it up, because of course the Holmes books aren't alone to enter the public domain this year, and Metropolis has too. So here's the list I found of creative works that are now public domain:

Books

— The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury (original publication)

— Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather

— The Big Four, by Agatha Christie

— The Tower Treasure, the first Hardy Boys mystery by the pseudonymous Franklin W. Dixon

— The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

— Copper Sun, by Countee Cullen

— Mosquitoes, by William Faulkner

— Men Without Women, by Ernest Hemingway

— Der Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse (in German)

— Amerika, by Franz Kafka (in German)

— Now We Are Six, by A.A. Milne with illustrations from E.H. Shepard

— Le Temps retrouvé, by Marcel Proust (in French)

— Twilight Sleep, by Edith Wharton

— The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder

— To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

Movies

— "7th Heaven," directed by Frank Borzage

— "The Battle of the Century," a Laurel and Hardy film directed by Clyde Bruckman

— "The Kid Brother," directed by Ted Wilde

— "The Jazz Singer," directed by Alan Crosland

— "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog," directed by Alfred Hitchcock

— "Metropolis," directed by Fritz Lang

— "Sunrise," directed by F.W. Murnau

— "Upstream," directed by John Ford

— "Wings," directed by William A. Wellman

Musical compositions

— "Back Water Blues," "Preaching the Blues" and "Foolish Man Blues" (Bessie Smith)

— "The Best Things in Life Are Free," from the musical "Good News" (George Gard "Buddy" De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)

— "Billy Goat Stomp," "Hyena Stomp" and "Jungle Blues" (Ferdinand Joseph Morton)

— "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "East St. Louis Toodle-O" (Bub Miley, Duke Ellington)

— "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Ol' Man River," from the musical "Show Boat" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)

— "Diane" (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack)

— "Funny Face" and "'S Wonderful," from the musical "Funny Face" (Ira and George Gershwin)

— "(I Scream You Scream, We All Scream for) Ice Cream" (Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert A. King)

— "Mississippi Mud" (Harry Barris, James Cavanaugh)

— "My Blue Heaven" (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson)

— "Potato Head Blues" and "Gully Low Blues" (Louis Armstrong)

— "Puttin' on the Ritz" (Irving Berlin)

— "Rusty Pail Blues," "Sloppy Water Blues" and "Soothin' Syrup Stomp" (Thomas Waller)

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/public-domain-debuts-include-last-sherlock-holmes-work-/6898309.html

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April Quotes to Keep You Pushing Forward with Positivity

Welcome the month of April with these positive quotes curated by the Vistmedia review team.

1. “Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.” – Akash B Chandran

2. “Sweet April’s tears / Dead on the hem of May.” – Alexander Smith

3. “April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.” – Angus Wilson

4. “They came on one of April’s most brilliant days–a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon…a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.” – Beverley Nichols

5. “If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” – Buddy de Sylva

6. “It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads.” – Jess Kidd

7. “When bullying April bruised mine eyes / With sleet-bound appetites and crude / Experiments of green, I still was wise / And kissed the blossoming rod.” – Cecil Day-Lewis

8. “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” – Byron Caldwell Smith

9. “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb

10. “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, “Go!” – Christopher Morley

11. “The tantalizing scent transported me to a white, sandy beach lapped by a turquoise sea under a tropical sun. Lime and coconut were the getaway flavors my bakery customers needed in April, tax time.” – Judith Fertig

12. “April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

13. “April weather, rain and sunshine both together.” – English Country Saying

If you’re enjoying these quotes, you’ll love our collection of rain quotes that will help wash away the stress and bring you the happiness you deserve.

14. “Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. “We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

16. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell

17. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler

18. “April splinters like an ice palace.” – Ruth Stone

19. “April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” – Hal Borland

20. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

For plenty more positivity and great content in your life, check out Vistmedia today.

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Sally was a Florenz Ziegfeld show right from its conception – well, from Ziegfeld’s conception. He had asked the successful Princes theatre show collaborators: Guy Bolton, Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse for an idea for a show that could give the lead to his newest Follies star, Marilyn Miller. They suggested a piece they had worked on and originally planned as a Princes Theatre show called The Little Thing. It told the story of a young girl working in a New York boarding house for performers who goes on to become a star. They played some songs including ‘The church around the corner’ and ‘You can’t keep a good girl down’ from their unproduced show. Kern also played a couple of songs from his not so successful but produced show Zip, Goes a Million which he had written with Buddy De Sylva, the songs were ‘Look for a silver lining’ and ‘Whip-Poor-Will’.

General Crack (1929) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

"Look For The Silver Lining" (1929) In Technicolor - Performed by Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray

Jazz Age Popular Music

"Look For The Silver Lining" (1929)

Performed by Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray

Music by Jerome Kern

Lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva

All Color All Talking Musical Comedy Vitaphone Production

A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION

GENERAL CRACK 1929 John Barrymore, Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon (ALAN CROSLAND) DVD, MP4

window into the past

Motion Picture News, April 5, 1930

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The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) - Classic Movie Review 9913

The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9913

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths Buddy De Sylva, Ray Henderson and Lew Brown, composers of ‘Sonny Boy’ for Al Jolson (played here by Norman Brooks).

Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey and Ernest Borgnine are supposed…

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🌧🌿🌸Happy April! 🌸🌿🌧 . I cannot believe this year is flying by so fast. No matter how your 2018 journey has begun, let’s try to start afresh and grow through this month with positivity! ‘If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.’ - Buddy de Sylva . Reposting this beautiful illustration from one of my favourite artists, @heather_rosehill 🌱🌸🙌🏽 . . . . #April #aprilshowers #helloapril #hellospring #springtime #illustration #artistsoninstagram #drawings #beautiful #spring #flowers #newbeginnings #newlife #season #watercolor #painting #naturedrawing #motivationalquotes #artwork #selfcare #lifecoach #coaching #happiness #wellness #healing #positivevibes #positivity #naturewalk #happyeaster https://ift.tt/2EaNwhd

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"If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May."

Buddy de Sylva