Word: cole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were hits. At least a dozen (including Without a Song, It's Only a Paper Moon, It Happened in Monterey) are all-time favorites and have brought Billy an "AA" rating with ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)-a distinction he shares with Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, the late George Gershwin and very few others. Billy's songs still bring him about $18,000 a year...
...limericks. Take "Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour de force...
...JAMES E. COLE...
...Embryo Cole Porters and Noel Cowards will have their chance tonight to sign up for the Hasty Pudding The-articals' competition for scriptwriters, lyricists, and songwriters, needed to give birth to next year's centennial production...
...JAMES E. COLE...