Word: besse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey says Harvard 34. Chicago 6: Dickinson 34. Dartmouth 6: Yale 3. Brown 2: Princeton 6. Ruigers 5: Bess 12. Vankees...
...movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses of Do It Again: "You won't regret it ... [flutter of turning pages]. . . . Come...
...series of lively advertising promotion ads in the New Yorker last fall. No newsstands carry the Farmer's Wife but it goes through the mail anywhere at $1 for three years. Circulation teams of women scour the richer byways for more readers. Six field editors, including Bess M. Rowe, who probably knows personally more farm women than anyone else in the U. S., constantly circulate over 100,000 rural miles each year, keeping Managing Editor F. W. Beckman in touch with his readers. A sort of countrified Delineator, the Farmer's Wife carries plenty of fiction...
...Caesar still playing to capacity audiences in its eighth week, last week Actor-Producer Orson Welles turned again to the gusty Elizabethans. Bawdier than three burlesque shows, but too disarmingly frank and deftly acted to be offensive, The Shoemakers' Holiday struck Broadway like a brisk wind. Good Queen Bess, never a prude, must have liked it too, and roared like a sailor...
...Call the Whole Thing Off were ephemeral, Gershwin at least had the satisfaction of hearing a nation sing them. In the Pulitzer Prize musicomedy Of Thee I Sing, nothing was more memorable than his fantastic song, Of Thee I Sing, Baby. Raffish tunes from his Negro opera Porgy and Bess (I Got Plenty of No thin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So), stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music for the cinema Delicious. He wrote the score for the Astaire-Ginger Rogers...