Word: freedley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Vinton Freedley meddled with such an idea when he tried to dramatize "Young Man With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...opening of the clubhouse is slated for the middle of next month. Invitations have already been sent to Vinton Freedley '14, and the cast of his new musical comedy, "Let's Face It", and there is talk of inviting the whole class of '45 partly as a good-will gesture and partly to test the strength of the new flooring
...somewhere with it. The job had been given to a single group-the semi-official Citizens Committee for the Army & Navy, Inc., headed by smart President Thomas John ("THINK") Watson of International Business Machines Corp. Under Chairman Watson was a theatrical subcommittee headed by Broadway Producer Vinton Freedley (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue...
...Ethel Merman, the Gertrude Lawrence and now it is Ethel Waters. With these Big Three Boston will be able to look back upon one of its best seasons of musical stage. And with "Cabin in the Sky" alone, the year wouldn't be exactly dull. Albert Lewis and Vinton Freedley have blown into Beantown a breath from the South, a pageant-like play of dusky dancing, spiritualistic singing and vivid settings, which has left critics winded right and left...
...George Freedley & John A. Reeves's A History of the Theatre (Crown; $3), a fat review of what has happened from Egypt's Pyramid Texts of 4000-3200 B.C. to Manhattan's Panama Hattie...