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Word: cole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never Know (by Cole Porter; produced by John Shubert). Originally boomed for a spring opening on Broadway. You Never Know has elected to cash in on road business till summer, not go to Manhattan till fall. With Cole Porter music, a P. G. Wodehouse plot, Clifton Webb's versatility, Lupe Velez' high spirits, Libby Holman's low register, You Never Know has sex & sophistication, somewhat less breath & bounce. Riding high are Velez and Webb as a manservant and lady's maid who doll up in their employers' togs. Libby Holman, featured in the billing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play and New | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...equal to the Cole Porter high of Anything Goes, You Never Know may be slicked up enough by fall to run it a close second on Broadway. Best songs at present: From Alpha to Omega, a catalogue of compliments in the style of You're the Top; You Never Know, in the usual sultry, husky Holmanner. Best revue bit: Actress Velez skipping brightly about as Katharine Hepburn, Gloria Swanson, Simone Simon, Shirley Temple in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play and New | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Cannibal Carnival," described as a farce on current events in the political and social world, has been chosen as the Dramatic Club's Spring production, Samuel L. Cole '40, president, announced yesterday. The play was written by a London taxi driver, Herbert Hodges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CANNIBAL CARNIVAL" IS CHOSEN AS H.D.C. PLAY | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth men all asked me to go out on the same night, I'd take them all on; after all, I've been married to Johnny Weismuller for five and a half years," said Lupe Velez, leading lady in the new Cole Porter musical at the Shubert, in an interview last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupe Velez Impartial Toward College Boys; Toby Wing Picks Harvard Men | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

...also had few that addicts could call first-rate. In the category of acceptable they put items like Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Market | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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