Word: corbett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down in the Mouth. In Burns Lake, B.C., Rancher Joe Corbett, out boating, lost his false teeth overboard, six years later had his second set stolen by a rat, got them back, two months later swallowed them...
...mainstay of two lively ditties, Don't Be a Woman If You Can and Land of Opportunitee; but Composer Schwartz gives you nothing whatever to hum. The dancing is agreeably tame, the chorus is more slight than select, the costumes lack charm and the singing lacks body. Leonora Corbett (Blithe Spirit) and Arthur Margetson (Around the World) are helpful performers but no miracle-workers. Park Avenue never catches the mood, or captures the lure, or achieves the high spirits of genuine musicomedy...
Back in the roaring pre-depression years, Arthur Schwartz produced "Dancing in the Dark" and later memorable scores for "Revenge With Music" and "At Home Abroad." Kaufman has hit pay-dirt consistently through two decades of the American tunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly bank on the smartness, sophistication, or schmaltz of another day, differently tempered--or perhaps the Messrs. Kaufman and Schwartz are, plainly and bluntly, "written out." Whatever the explanation, "Park Avenue" has tunes and situations that smack far too conspicuously of past playgoing...
Flashes of hilarious dialogue are more than occasional; partly, we may imagine, a consequence of collaborator Nunnally Johnson's hand in the scripting. Ira Gershwin's customarily witty lyrics fare well under the care of Arthur Margetson, recently of "Around the World," who sings "Land of Opportunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly wife in Broadway's original "Blithe Spirit," who solidly sends "The Dew is on the Rose" (pro-early divorce: "before they ever rifted, they drifted--apart"), and the show's best song...
Divorced. By Leonora Corbett, 38, glittering star of the British stage & screen constellation (Blithe Spirit, The Constant Nymph, Lady in Waiting): her first husband, John Francis Royal, 60, burly NBC vice president; after four years of marriage, no children; in Reno...