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...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Show Boat in Cleveland | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Show Boat). The songs she sang as the half-caste Julie in that show never grew stale though she sang them often. Even in the murkiest nightery, no audience was too tough for her to soften with Jerome Kern's Bill and Can't Help Lovin' Dat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Torchbearer's End | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...Black as dat backwall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...looking like a cross between a hooked rug and a donkey, was recently picked by girls of a college sorority as the last man in the world they'd like to be left alone with on a desert island. That honor moved him to say: "Tings like dat is all advertising. Good for yuh. As for dem college graduates, I know some. Mostly bus boys tryin' to woik deir way up to waiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rosenbloom at Harvard | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rosenbloom at Harvard | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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