Word: kern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roberta (adapted by Otto Harbach from Alice Duer Miller's Gowns by Roberta, score by Jerome Kern; Max Gordon, producer) is another gallant try at making a handsome, funny and affecting play with music and dancing, girls and dresses. Plot: a U. S. college boy loses his girl because she thinks he is "small-town." To forget her, he visits his Aunt Minnie (Fay Templeton) who is Roberta, a famed Paris dressmaker. Planning to will her establishment to her assistant, a onetime Russian princess (Tamara), Aunt Minnie dies without signing the will, thus forcing her nephew-heir to turn...
...waiting until Tallulah Bankhead gets well to produce Owen Davis' Jezebel, a play about old New Orleans. George White will have a new Scandals, Lew Leslie a new Blackbirds. Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly...
...Music In the Air," Colonial--Music by the consummate artists, Mr. Jerome Kern, and the book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. A large production without the gaudiness of most of the super shows. The old favorites, Al Shean and Reinald Werrenrath perform ably. Last week...
Author Wodehouse married in 1914 (Mrs. Ethel Rowley), has a daughter, smokes pipes, loves golf, plays bridge by ear. Other books: Leave It to Psmith, The Inimitable Jeeves* Summer Lightning, Big Money. With Guy Bolton, Jerome Kern. George Grossmith and Ian Hay he has done more than two dozen stage comedies among .them A Damsel in Distress, Baa, Baa Black Sheep, Kissing Time...
Ushers are: H. Lawrence Bogart, chairman, Frederick H. White, Phillip Cushing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, R. A. Benson Jr., Harry Kern, H. G. Pearson, Jr., R. W. Paul, J. J. Thorndike, and G. A. Emerson...