Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tobey: "He's my son and secretary and he isn't Willie...
...that he doesn't have his troubles building "Elmer" into something more than a story from "American Boy Magazine." Ring Lardner has offered little more than an obvious plot and some run-of-the-mill dialogue. But Joe isn't interested in laughter of the mind. His purpose, stated in a beautiful little speech after the last curtain, is to hit the audience around the heart. "Elmer The Great" may be a simple play about simple people but it is fine refreshment in a troubled world...
...motored past City Hall, past signs, "Welcome Champ," "Roosevelt For a 3rd, 4th, 5th Term," past thousands of faces that know Roosevelt and light up when he passes. "If there's any anti-third term sentiment in America, it isn't in the faces of the crowds," said Correspondent Alfred Stedman of the anti-Roosevelt St. Paul Pioneer Press...
...that as it may, right now Goodman isn't receiving half the credit he deserves. You must remember that when he organized his band in 1935, the kind of arrangements he played constituted something entirely new in jazz. Even Fletcher Henderson's great band never had the ensemble precision and bite that you heard on the old Goodman records. Fletcher, it's true, arranged most of the stuff that Benny played, but Benny and his musicians deserve the credit for doing proper justice to those arrangements, which would be worthless if played by an inferior band...
...dainty waltzes and then reprises for the rest of the evening. There is no novelty tune, nor anything that is even moderately good jazz, and by the third act you will offer your kingdom for a song. The book combines one dull situation with another. It just isn't fair to ask Marguerite Namara, Helen Gleason and John Lodge to submit to such treatment...