Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edgell Miss E. M. Estabrook, Mrs. J. R. Fearing, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gay, Mr. A. M. Goodridge, Mrs. M. I. deGozzaldi, Mrs. A. G. Grant, Professor and Mrs. C. N. Greenough, Mrs. H. P. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Harrington, Mrs. E. W. Hutchins, Mrs. B. K. Little, Mrs. H. E. McElwain Mrs. C. G. Mixter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Montague, Mrs. A. W. Moors...
...Gay Divorce (libretto by Dwight Taylor; words & music by Cole Porter; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer). For this bright little musicomedy Composer Porter (The New Yorkers), whom Yalemen remember as the author of "Bulldog, Bull-dog," has written some of his most beguiling melodies and lyrics. Sample...
...halting little tale which Gay Divorce has to tell relates the adventures of a young man who finds himself at an English seaside resort pining for the girl he spent a day with a fortnight before, after which she vanished. Her sudden reappearance is fraught with complications, since she is bent on getting a divorce on the strictly technical grounds of adultery and soon is under the delusion that her young man is the professional corespondent for whom she is waiting. Dancer Astaire, the young man. only once loses his temper with Miss Luce, the extremely tempting young woman. With...
Thin, unfunny in spots and marred on the première by the brandied roarings of a number of Mr. Astaire's fashionable friends, Gay Divorce nevertheless provides a generous measure of polite entertainment. Luella Gear, cast as Actress Luce's guide, philosopher and friend, is dryly humorous, sings one funny song about a "brave young American girl of 37" who proclaims herself "true to the Red. White & Blue" at a Communist gathering, another about an unfortunate family of Fitches. Eric Blore plays an amusing barman...
...wife reads to him or plays the radio, will seem less significant to laymen than a list of the current shows he has had a hand in. He prepared most of the scores for Music in the Air, Of Thee I Sing, Flying Colors, Take a Chance and Gay Divorce. He lent his expert touch to George Gershwin's Pardon My English which opened last week in Philadelphia; to Walk a Little Faster in which Beatrice Lillie opened this week; to Sissy, Fritz Kreisler's operetta opening this month in Vienna. Bennett's jobs are piled high...