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...fallacy to assume that musical comedies are simply plays in which, for some unaccountable reason, some of the words are sung instead of spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern...
...heyday--from the 1880s to the early 1910s--Memorial Hall was home to boxing matches, gambling and social drinking. Students of those lays affectionately referred...
Ridden out of Washington two years ago as a has-been who many believed had seen his political heyday pass, Quayle is now hoping--many feel realistically--to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee...
Though the Justice Department found no cause for action against him, the lingering memory kept Coelho from an official role in the Administration. But he is much admired by several of Clinton's younger aides, including senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, who were House staff members during Coelho's congressional heyday as adroit fund raiser and campaign tactician. He has served as an informal adviser for more than a year. Coelho's stock at the White House rose higher when Leon Panetta became chief of staff. They had once been twin stars of the California House delegation -- Panetta the policy wonk...
Caruso, meanwhile, was probably the highest-paid performer in the world during his heyday from 1903 to his death in 1921. Beginning in 1914, when the average weekly salary in the U.S. was about $12, Caruso was paid at least $2,500 (almost $37,000 in today's dollars) for each appearance at the Metropolitan Opera; today the Met's top fee is only $12,000. In Central and South America, where he was a god, Caruso received as much as $15,000 for a single engagement, payable in gold. His appearances in two silent movies in 1918, My Cousin...