Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circus in a Broadway theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
...time Jumbo finally opened, after six months of rehearsals, it had cost Whitney a lot more. Though it was a hit, it never paid for itself. But it did put Billy Rose on the map as a showman. It put him, specifically, in Fort Worth, Tex., which hired "Mr. Brice" at $1,000 a day to stage its 1936 Frontier Centennial...
Most of last year's Trophy winning Tufts team has gone the way of naval trainees and other wartime bonanzas on this peacetime sports scene and the calibre of the Jumbo's play so far this season has shown the effects of the depletion. However still smarting from last week's Dartmouth defeat, the Crimson is not underestimating the opposition...
...jumbo-size, four-string lute of surprising range and power. The climax of the company's program was a p'i-p'a solo, The Downfall of Chu, describing in great scalding floods of sound the gathering of armies, a wild battle, the grief and suicide. P'i-p'a Soloist Sung Yue-tuh took five curtain calls...
...battle which left the outcome uncertain until the final minutes, the Jayvee sextet beat down a scrappy Tufts squad on Arena ice yesterday by a 6-4 count. When a second-period Jumbo scoring spree rang up two goals within a minute to erase their one point lead, the Chasemen struck back with two tallies at 11:07 and 15:24, and never relinquished the lead...