Word: ay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cohan's own words and music and a show-wise script by Sam and Bella (Kiss Me, Kate) Spewack pleasantly evoked the furbelows and gimcracks of a theatrical era in which Cohan wrote shows called Little Johnny Jones and Little Nelly Kelly, and singers stretched "baby" to "ba-ay-ay-ay-bee." Rooney evoked Rooney. But if the tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin...
...Actress Caron, who is made up to look rather like one of those sentimentally pretty pollywogs in a Disney cartoon, hastens to roll her eyes soulfully and explain that she is just not good enough for the young man any more. "Ay ham deefrawnt.'' Fortunately, all this takes place during World War II in London, and a buzz-bomb soon comes along to simplify the situation. It pounds some sense into the heroine's head, to judge from the script, but it only leaves the spectator in a daze...
...America can be misused for such purposes, and often is. Since when has this danger ever kept American writers from saying what they think, and since when has it kept intelligent American readers from judging such books on their merits? Any day that we have to judge American books ay this one criterion-whether they will be read with "great glee by anti-Americans"-will be a sad day for American books, and for America...
KING: How, madame-Russians? PRINCESS: Ay, in truth, my lord; trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. -Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost...
...first popular Cha-Cha was titled Rockin; the Cha-Cha. for the future, however, Rock n Roll devotees have no qualms. The tourists who spread Rock n Roll through France this summer, have, on returning, given local Rock n roll a French touch with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll is to be reckoned with." And Mr. Freed rejoins " ' The Big Beat in American Music' was here one hundred years ago. It will be here a thousand years after we are all gone...