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COLE PORTER is the New Haven grad who wrote "Bulldog, bulldog, bow-wow-wow, Eli Yale." Deciding to turn to better things, he came to Harvard, but he left Law School, deciding to turn to still better things. The best of those better things is Kiss Me, Kate, a delightful major musical based on delightful minor Shakespeare, and it's surprising, for a farce, how major a portion of the score was composed in the minor mode...
...Bow-Wow-Wow. Material came from home too. When Ethel Merman sang the funny patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember...
Aside from four (4) regrettably rousing renditions of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-Wow-Wow, E-Li Yale," "Roughly Speaking" is a tasteful bit of expert light comedy. It may have a Boolah Boolah backdrop for nearly one complete real, but in the hands of Rosalind Russell and Director Mike Curtiz it also has gay nonchalance and a touch of Americana in the reminiscent style of "Our Hearts Were Young...
Sing to the colors that float in the light, Hurrah for the Yellow and the Blue; On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin, Bully for Old Purdue! March, march on down the field- Men of the Scarlet and the Gray; Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-wow-wow- Watch that Army play! -GRANTLAND RICE...