Business was booming on old Broadway in the snowy December of 1927. While Herbert Stothart was conducting his operetta Golden Dawn to packed houses at the Hammerstein Theatre, other future film scorers were conducting musical shows to packed houses at neighbouring theatres. Max Steiner was conducting Vincent Youmans' Hit the Deck at the Belasco Theatre. Roy Webb was conducting Rodgers and Hart's A Connecticut Yankee at the Vanderbilt. Alfred Newman was conducting George Gershwin's Funny Face at the Alvin. The Great White Way was at the peak of its Golden Age… At the same time, Al Jolson's Warner Bros. film THE JAZZ SINGER, a part-Talkie just released, was attracting huge audiences. A new Golden Age, that of Hollywood, was about to dawn. Besides songs, Jolson's picture contained a musical score specially composed, arranged and conducted by his (59th Street) theatre orchestra leader, Louis ("April Showers") Silvers, who had accompanied him to Hollywood. Stothart, Steiner, Webb, Newman and various other top Broa