Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick" all day, astounds his companions...
Miss Field is given a great many interesting and amusing things to do and say by her author-director-husband and a fascinating and endless series of sets by Jo Mielziner on which to work, so it is doubly unfortunate that the play as such just barely fails to make the grade...
Woodrow Wilson was finally accepted as a great man by his old university, not one of whose many empty niches held a memorial to Princeton's most famed alumnus and president. President Harold W. Dodds, accepting a Jo Davidson bust, paid a long-delayed tribute which it is now safe to pay, even in Princeton: "Woodrow Wilson's contribution to Princeton," he said, "has been surpassed by no one in the 200 years of her history...
...some cigaret girl (Dorothy Comingore) is banal and forced. When Frankie tries to act tough, Playwright Reeves lets comedy seep into scenes that should be hard-hitting theater, and they wind up as nothing. The best things about Beggars are its amusing glimpses of nightclub office management and Jo Mielziner's stunning office...
...something to see. Broadway Designer Jo Mielziner had spent a wad of State Department money on its four golden, velour columns (for the Four Freedoms), its blue backdrop, the semicircle of 46 United Nations flags, the floodlighting. The effect was just about right-not dull, not gaudy...