Word: beggars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marx Brothers. These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...
...Straightforward story-telling in a poet's prose is always rich reading. Poet Heyward's province is South Carolina-Negro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes...
...last bit of copy was carried by a plucky little beggar, who rode as he had never ridden before, and was quite done out when he fell off his wheel as he delivered his copy. But he had done his bit well, and the crowd, coming from the game, was met in the Yard with cries of 'Full account of the game! CRIMSON extra...
...University Glee Club while he was in College, figured largely in the Glee Club's European trip in 1921. After he graduated he studied in Europe, and for a time directed amateur dramatics in Santa Barbara, Cal. Later he was an understudy to Roland Young in "The Beggar on Horseback...
...more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play is The Butter...