Musical Comedies for 3YA and 4YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 8, 7 September 1928, Page 17

Musical Comedies for 3YA and 4YA

MUSICAL comedy to-day is probably the most popular form of theatrical enterprise. Opera, drama, and vaudeville each have their own devotees, but musical comedy makes its appeal to followers of each of these forms of entertainment. Two such productions are on the programmes scheduled for next week--"‘Going Up" (by Hirsch), at 3YA on Friday, and "Kissing Time" (by Caryll), at 4YA on Saturday. Of all the English composers of this tuneful type of entertainment, none, perhaps, has excelled Ivan Caryll, who has demonstrated repeatediy that he possesses a wonderful ability for creating light music of sheer beauty. This was evident in the earlier works he wrote or collaborated largely in. "The Girls of Gottenberg," "The Pink Lady," "Our Miss Gibbs," and numerous others, although written many years ago, still live, and will doubtless bear revival far into the future. As rich in tuneful songs as his older works are, Caryll’s creative genius has developed with the years, his later plays revealing matured ability. Of these "Kissing. Time" is a brilliant example, for every number in the book is unexcelled for rare beauty of melody. Each of the fourteen songs, and the concerted numbers opening and ending the two acts, possesses its own particular style, but never once through the play is the quaint lilting melody lost in the music. TUTTI AU LUC ALL UCM HUM TMTUMUTMTT