Word: bea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such splendor falls on theater stalls only on great occasions. This, in a way, was a great one: Better Late, Bea Lillie's first British musical* since 1942. The show itself was not much. Sighed the News Chronicle: "... A thing of shreds and patches-witty shreds and blank patches." The blank patches were very, very blank, particularly an aching void called Give My Love to London...
...Seven Lively Arts. Billy Rose's cultural zoo, chiefly notable for mockingbird Bea Lillie (TIME...
Some ask why Don Strauss, and Bea Nielsen are so chummy of late--a smile on the lips of many third decors will reveal the answer. Our premature "obituary" on Cagey Pickle caused some comment. Hereafter we will venture to predict nothing. M.C. Smith, who is getting older by the day, is nominated by the Millsaps Mariner, Bill Stark, as an eager beaver--how come? Jim "Cadence" Polhemus finally brought marine cadence to Briggs Cage. Yes, "the Hook" really got his chance when "the Orator" instigated rotating command. This innovation has uncovered many varieties of cadence existing here...
...Seven Lively Arts. Billy Rose's cultural zoo, chiefly notable for mocking bird Bea Lillie (TIME...
With flashbulbs exploding, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Ambassadors Winant and Biddle in a flag-draped box, and Noel Coward, Bea Lillie and mobs of servicemen packing the house, it was a gala opening. It was also a demonstrative one: time after time cascading applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which...