Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the roaring pre-depression years, Arthur Schwartz produced "Dancing in the Dark" and later memorable scores for "Revenge With Music" and "At Home Abroad." Kaufman has hit pay-dirt consistently through two decades of the American tunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly bank on the smartness, sophistication, or schmaltz of another day, differently tempered--or perhaps the Messrs. Kaufman and Schwartz are, plainly and bluntly, "written out." Whatever the explanation, "Park Avenue" has tunes and situations that smack far too conspicuously of past playgoing...
...Abilene, Kans., old trail's end of the western cattle routes, she brought them up: Arthur, who became a bank official; Milton, who became a college president; Earl, who became a chemical engineer; Edgar, who became a lawyer; and Dwight...
...there the rest of his life. He has a stone-and-wood workshop in Lahaska, in Bucks County, Pa., a region thickly settled by Broadway wits and literary wights; but his four-story, pink stucco Paris house has two studios. And he likes the talk on Paris' left bank. Last week he was shamelessly spending his time reading dusty old letters from Arnold Bennett and Gertrude Stein and arranging an art show...
...fishy smell of tiny Grande Rivière (pop. 992) on Quebec's rugged Gaspé coast, something new had been added: an air of progress and prosperity. It showed in little things: new rubber boots on the fishermen; gay colored raincoats on their wives & children. Fat bank accounts told more...
Actually, it was hard to find great fault with the way President Ivey had run Citizens National. The bank had weathered the depression without Government help (as Giannini's organization had not), its earnings were regular, if unspectacular. A.P.'s only specific complaint: "Its capital funds have not been restored to the 1930 position...