Word: friml
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima donna in Friml's The Firefly. Still he complains that opportunities are limited. ("I was slated for a part as one of the strippers in Gypsy, but Ethel Merman nixed me.") It is a sad thing, says Jones, that "today, female impersonation is a dying art. It goes back...
Dallas, Texas, State Fair Music Hall: Wish You Were Here, a poolside musical with Shirley Jones (through July 5); Friml's swashbuckling old The Vagabond King, with Burgess Meredith...
Docking in Los Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked...
...when audiences went sour on all the high-flown words, Operettist Rudolf Friml sweetened them up with some pleasant, sugary music. The Vagabond King ran for 511 performances on Broadway, and had every high-school tenor in the country gargling such sentimental favorites as Only a Rose, Someday and The Vagabond Song. Hollywood made a movie of the musical in 1930-not to mention two film versions of the McCarthy play in 1920 and 1938-and now the poor poet's corpse has been dug up once again...
Married. Rudolf Friml, 67, Bohemian-born composer of schmalzy light operas (The Vagabond King, Rose Marie, The Firefly); and Kay Ling, 39, his Chinese-American secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco...