There have been successful rerivals of "Sweet Adeline" and "The Curse of an Aching Heart." Ruth Etting, perhaps, started the whole trend some years ago when she warbled on the radio that standby of the stereopticon slide era, "Shine On, Harvest Moon." Lately a tuyere has risen for "Oh, Johnny, How You Can Level" since picturized by Universal. And William Saroyan has constructed his latest play around the Gay Ninety hit, "Love's Old Sweet Song."
Film foraging for bygone ballads was, to the best of knowledge and belief, set rolling back to Tony Pas-for and Harrigan and Hart by the production of "The Great Ziegfeld." In this picture of the rococo pageant try of the fabulous Follies as they were When nobody drank orange juice on Broadway but Diamond Jim Brady, such musical milestones as "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" and "Rio Rita" were set up again. Not satisfied with these sparing samples of machine age folk songs, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" last year packed no fewer than 35 museum pieces into the score—among them, "By the Sea," "Mis-scun Waltz" and "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine."
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