They Shall Have Music

Frankie (Gene Reynolds), a young slum dweller, finds a Carnegie Hall concert ticket on the sidewalk and, after using it to hear famed violinist Jascha Heifetz perform, revels in thoughts of a music career. He enrolls in the underfinanced inner-city music school run by Prof. Lawson (Walter Brennan), then, seeing that the school is near the end of its rope, enlists the assistance of his streetwise pals to implore Heifetz to help save it. Naturally, a benefit concert does the trick. Although best known for the Girls who assumed his name, Samuel Goldwyn also tried to impose culture on audiences. THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES had mixed popular and classical music, but Goldwyn wan...