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...Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among his hits: "One Alone," Roberta's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." and Rose Marie's "Indian Love Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...When you get older, you get more ambitious," bubbled evergreen Schmalz King Rudolph Friml, who at 81 still takes a daily dip in the chilly Pacific, follows it up with five minutes of handstands and six hours at the piano. Convinced that "everyone is tired of unmelodious music," Friml hopes that his first new operetta since 1934, a "real Frenchie" confection called Rendezvous in Paris, will tinkle onto Broadway during the coming season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 1961 | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...survivors are headed by Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kern-y, Friml-ous past; The Balcony, Jean Genet's world view through a brothel window; The Connection, a pad full of hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and a skillfully acted double bill of disenchantment: Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a beaten and lonely ex-writer poignantly and often amusingly grovels in his past, paired with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, in which a desperately lonely beatnik attempts the hopeless, tragicomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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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