Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, Abbe Lane, featured singer with the Xavier Cugat band, and the cause of a separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs. Cugat, told the court her side of the story. Mrs. Cugat had charged that detectives found the singer "naked as a jay bird" in a hotel room with her rumba-loving husband. Not so, said Abbe. She had used the room simply to make a quick change for a midnight movie with the boss. When the detectives burst in, she said, "I had panties on and slippers." but "no brassiere, not with that gown." And how was Mr. Cugat...
Paint Your Wagon, an enjoyable musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, promises light entertainment at 8:30 tonight. All about pre-gold rush days in California at the Shubert...
...Blue Ribbons (by Sumner Locke Elliot; produced by Jay Robinson) tells the story of a spoiled, posturing ex-Hollywood child star (Jay Robinson) who is persuaded to step out of a part he isn't right for, in a play he is producing with his own movie cash. The play was expressly written for Producer Robinson after he was persuaded to step out of such a part last season. He isn't right for this one, either: he plays a farce role with quite un-comic intensity. But the play does have a certain breeziness and three talented...
Written by Alan Jay Lerner, "Paint Your Wagon" is the story of post-Gold Rush California, of the ever-hopeful men that wandered the hills in search of one good strike. It is the story of an old speculator, Ben Rumson, and his daughter, and a mining camp...
...American in Paris is a product of many talents and a triumph of teamwork. Actress Caron, a young (19) French ballet dancer discovered by Kelly, combines dancing skill with a fetching simplicity and the plump-cheeked freshness of a Renoir model. The script, by Alan Jay Lerner, bounces wittily along under the direction of Vincente Minnelli. The Gershwin score brims with a dozen of his works, some heard only in snatches, some unfamiliar, ranging from such standards as 'S Wonderful and Embraceable You to Piano Concerto in F, played by Gershwin's leading interpreter, Pianist Oscar Levant...