Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

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UNIVERSAL WEEKLY i April 22, 1933 POPULAR DEMAND BF MUSICAL TRIUMPH, Jeanie Lang’s Career 1 IEANIE LANG'S career began in "King of Jazz." The reason Jeanie Lang is one of the most popular of broadcast artists today can be found in the fact that her beauty and cute style of singing were so remarkably demonstrated in "King of Jazz." Jeanie Lang was born in St. Louis. After a few discouraging attempts on the stage, the Langs went to California for a visit. One of the stunts of a California visit is to go to Uni Bing Crosby, who sprang to fame because of his performance in “King of Jazz ” and who is now one of the biggest names in radio and moving pictures. FOR the last year, Carl Laemmle has been convinced that music was going to play the dominant part in forthcoming pictures that it was entitled to play. As soon as he was convinced of this, he immediately set about finding what kind of musical pictures theatre-goers wanted to see and which ones of the past Universal musical productions they would like to have revised. To his gratification, there was an overwhelming response not only in favor of musical pictures but absolutely demanding to see "King of Jazz" again. This response came, of course, largely through the channels of the Saturday Evening Post, in which Mr. Laemmle asked his question of the public. The response was so overpowering that it was not in any way to be denied. That is the primary reason why "King of Jazz" will be re-cut, re-edited, and re-printed for distribution by the middle or the latter part of May. Added Features In re-cutting "The King of Jazz," a number of considerations will be taken into account at Universal City. In the first place, "The King of Jazz" was such a monumental production that its original cutters had not the heart to bring it down to the footage which most theatres demand. The new version of "The King of Jazz" will be within the average theatre's length requirements. While this will elimin Exquisite scene from the John Boles number, “It Happened in Monterey,” one of the most artistic settings ever built for moving pictures, and one of the most enlivening songs ever written for a film. It was composed by Mabel Wayne. The Sisters G, imported especially from Berlin for this Paul Whiteman “King of Jazz” revue. ate many priceless scenes, the result will be a general tightening up and pepping up of the tempo. It will also give an opportunity to lay emphasis on certain of the newer players, that is, players who were subordinate at the time "King of Jazz" was made but who are now on the top of the heap. Furthermore, a number of scenes which were crowded out of the original version may be used now to replace some of the outmoded "black-outs" of the original.