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Word: friml (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Mary Sunshine. A hit musical that parodies the sugary operettas of Friml and Kern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...Colorado highlands in the early 19005, the musical is a reminiscent farce, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods. It actually owes most to Friml's Rose Marie, whose Royal Canadian Mounties are now red-jacketed U.S. Forest Rangers. Little Mary enters carrying flowers in one hand, a watering can in the other, and stainless steel morals in her breast. She loves the No. i Forest Ranger, a strapping fellow, tall as a sequoia and equally intelligent. Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences; the skillfully imitative melodies by Rick Besoyan (who also wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMEDIANS: The Meter Man | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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