Word: foy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smiles, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, is very pretty, very big, very quiet. It contains four of the most charming personages on the U. S. musicomedy stage: Fred & Adele Astaire, Marilyn Miller, Eddie Foy Jr. Producer Ziegfeld is one of the few entrepreneurs who can distribute elaborate scenery, lovely costumes and beautiful women about a big stage and at the same time keep the decoration from becoming Levantine. But Vincent Youmans has written far more distinguished music (in Show Girl, Rainbow, Great Day) than he has provided for Smiles and the book never gives Tom Powers (onetime partner of Joe Cook...
...Dunster's own college. Magdalene College of Cambridge, consists of "Quarterly per pale indented or and azure on a bend of the second between two eagles displayed or a fret between two martlets of the last. Supporters, two antelopes gules horned, chained, and collared, or Motto, 'Guarde Ta Foy...
...sings is indeed well sung. Then there are the inimitable Astaires, a brother and sister team that is mostly sister but which as a unit is at all times thoroughly diverting. And although their names are not printed on the programs in black-faced type there are Eddie Foy Jr., and Tom Howard, the former one of the few that can raise a drunk scene to high art, and the latter one who makes no pretensions as to art but who can get far more whole-hearted laughs than a score of ordinary musical comedy wise-crackers Mr Ziegfeld...