Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece band and his smooth arrangements of Tin Pan Alley hit tunes and minor classics (The Song of India), was "King of Jazz," and his music and records were far better known than the small-band New Orleans variety. But after Louis arrived in Manhattan in 1924, and persuaded Fletcher Henderson to let him "open up" on his horn at Broadway's Roseland Ballroom one night, jazz musicians of all existing varieties flocked to listen...
Miller and Robert C. Seaver '50 are serving as co-producers and directors of the play. Designer Robert Fletcher '49, production manager Emory H. Niles, Jr. '49, and construction manager Robert Swain '51 have started work on the production...
Scoring: Kirkland--Lamb, 3; Holly French; Henry Gill. Dunster--McClure; Thompson; Roger Perry; Henry Fletcher...
...smaller roles, Edna Preston bustles as the perpetual Cockney maid is expected to, and Mary Mace is proper and prim as Sir John's secretary. Maxine Sheppard looks natural in the cynical, sophisticated--and bitchy--role of Lady Fletcher...
Finally Mom decides to give up Fletcher for Michael, and the third act finds mother and son doing nicely thank you at a rather too cheory, peaches-and-cream colored flat in another part of London. When Sir John returns, with a divorce promised, and still in love, Mom at first refuses to marry him, but over a couple of shots of gin with Michael, Fletcher gives the boy ideas for his own love life. Somehow the boy matures and understands, and though the audience is never sure quite how it happened, True Love conquers...