Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Toes (words & music by George Abbott, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers ; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is an historic show. Like The Little Show (1929), Music in the Air (1932), As Thou sands Cheer (1933), it stands as a definite milestone in the U. S. musical theatre. Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded. Such was the appraisal of the most gilded first-night audience of the 1935-36 theatrical season - a collection ranging from handsome Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald to Hoofer Eleanor Powell-which roared...
Miss Cela Lee of the Stork Club in New York will sing during supper, after which there will be one of the first public showings of old-fashioned movies, which will include the first Walt Disney and some of the thrillers of former days with William S. Hart and Theda Bara...
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...into a highly animated, pleasingly smooth and sure-paced vehicle for the bright talents of Ray Bolger, Luella Gear, Tamara Geva, Doris Carson, Monty Woolley and a galaxy of well constructed demoiselles. The book represents the combined efforts of Messrs. George Abbott and the skilful team of Rodgers and Hart who have also supplied it with a variety of tuneful and well-worded songs. The accent is definitely on the dancing which has been supervised by George Balanchine, the eminent choreographer...
...Rodgers and Hart tunes are simple and melodious and it would not be surprising to find the air-waves congested with the strains of "It's Got to Be Love," On Your Toes" and the pleasing lilt of "Small Hotel." The Miolziner settings are superbly adjusted to the spirit of the show and are colorful and quite exciting...