Word: cole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town (Les Brown; Blue-bird). New Cole Porter torch song played by a sound and rising new band of Duke University boys. The Brown band also has made the least offensive record of This Can't Be Love from The Boys From Syracuse, Richard Rodgers' most tunesome score...
Leave It to Me! (book by Bella & Samuel Spewack; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is big-name, big-scale, big-town musicomedy: the season's first show to fetch $6.60 on opening night. It tells of simple-souled Alonzo P. Goodhue (Victor Moore), snatched from happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin...
...from a knockout. Dripping with fat moments, it too often relaxes that festive, madcap spirit, that no-slowing-down-for-curves tempo, that kettle-boiling-over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...
...Tucker, appearing in the Cole Porter musical in Boston, was enthusiastic about everything, if a little vague in the noise and confusion of a first night. She congratulated Harvard for its victory over Notre Dame last Saturday...
...Leave It To Me!" is the title of the new Cole Porter musical which opened last night at the Shubert to applause that delayed the production half an hour but was more than deserved by all concerned. Calculated to delight the lovers of gay tunes and sprightly if at times questionable patter, the play offers fifteen songs, most of which do justice to their composer, and a laugh-packed book by Bella and Samuel Spewack...