Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anger arose with the appearance of Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column headlined: GILLETTE IS CHOSEN BY FARLEY TO BEAT ROOSEVELT IN 1944. The burden of Pearson's story was that James A. Farley had met with anti-Fourth Term Senators (including Missouri's Bennett Clark, Georgia's Walter George, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, et al.) to choose a candidate to win the Democratic nomination from Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. The man they settled on, said Pearson, was Iowa's handsome, white-thatched Senator Guy M. Gillette...
Born. To brunette Cinemactress Joan Bennett Wanger, 33, and Producer Walter Wanger, 48, her onetime boss: their first child, a daughter; after two and a half years of marriage, in Hollywood. Weight: 6 lb. She is also the mother of 15-year-old Diana (by John Fox), 8-year-old Melinda (by Cinemawriter Gene Markey...
...past 20 years three hard-working men have written 90% of all the musical comedy orchestrations that have hit Broad way. They are Kansas City-born Robert Russell Bennett, Vienna-born Hans Spialek, New Jersey-born Don Walker. To these three has recently been added Oklahoma-born Ted Royal, who specializes in hot jazz arrangements. These four do most of their work in the offices of one of Tin Pan Al ley's biggest song publishers, Chappell & Co. Their average job of musicomedy tailoring takes about two weeks...
...already learning its lines and tunes. The orchestrators study the composer's sketches, watch the numbers being built up in rehearsal, make their musical plans accordingly. For example, a singer like Ethel Waters can stand Wagnerian power house orchestration; not so the average soprano soubrette. For final choruses, Bennett, Spialek, Walker and Royal provide what they call a Paramount-Public-Fox finish. But while they are on the job, living on coffee, sleeping only four or five hours a night, producing some 300,000 notes costing around $6,000, they also contrive many skillful orchestral delicacies...
Walker and Royal have the popular, tuneful touch. Bennett and Spialek, both composers of long classical training, specialize on choruses and symphonic build ups. But sometimes one of the men does an entire score. Of current Broadway shows Richard Rodgers' Oklahoma! is entirely Bennett's. Fats Waller's Early to Bed is entirely Walker's. Cole Porter generally insists on using all four. Few musical-show composers will have anyone else...