Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wake Up and Dream. Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer. The music, for instance, which accompanies his latest revue is by a trio consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel...
...whose appearance disguised as a horse proves again that nothing is much funnier than the combination of animal aspect and human behavior. Neglecting ambitious scenery and lavish chorus effects, Mr. Cochran has revitalized the decrepit revue formula with large doses of the unfailing remedy of personality. Wake Up and Dream succeeds because it contains individuals who do individual things...
...feel comfortable in a ballet skirt at the Wiener StaatsOper (Vienna) when she was six years old. She has been on the payroll ever since, obtaining sundry leaves of absence. Her only previous U. S. appearance was in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1927) but she directed the dances for Noel Coward's recent revue This Year of Grace and his current musi-comedy Bitter Sweet. Most of the routines in Wake Up and Dream are also hers...
...subsequent career begins like the dream of every oil prospector. With intuitions and talent for analysis so acute that he really believes it to be second sight, he makes millions. Simultaneously the other things that he has valued escape him. Leisure and its cultural by-products are first to go. His ruthlessness compels awe but defeats friendship-when the liquid, lovely costume of his wife is much admired by guests, he exclaims: "I made her buy it!" At length his boasted gift of prophecy fails and while the newsboys hawk the story of his downfall, his wife comes...