Word: heyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murder at the Vanities (by Earl Carroll & Rufus King; music & lyrics by Edward Heyman & Richard Myers). During a matinee of the eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong...
...patriotism, the article is not the "best buy." Many of the stamp-canceling machines in British postoffices which brand envelopes with "Buy British" were made in the U. S. -On grounds of patent and trade mark infringement General Electric Co. obtained an injunction in San Francisco last week, restraining Heyman & Co. from importing Japanese electric light bulbs, announced that it planned similar action against other importers...
Brian Hooker, who deserves kudos for a fine translation of Cyrano, has compiled the libretto. Lyrics are by Edward Heyman, who put words to the music of Three's a Crowd and There Goes the Bride. Incorrigible, bandy-legged Charles Winninger is the comedian. The music is the most ambitious attempt of Vincent Youmans, than whom Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern are no better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before...
...Sweden: James Heyman...