Word: levi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While vacationing in Michigan, Mayor John H. Levi of Miami Beach, Fla., was laid low with neuritis, appealed to a clinic. Prescription: go to Miami Beach...
...plot revolves around the machinations of a certain Mrs. Levi, an inveterate minder of other peoples' business, who is set on marrying for his money Horace Vandergelder, a self-made old skinflint who runs a feed store in the Yonkers of the early '80's. In the end she hooks him, but not until young lovers have been kept apart, new ones brought together, and everyone found the adventure that he has been craving...
...Levi, the artful Miss Cowl once more displays her superb timing and mastery of comedy technique. It is only to be hoped that sometime, somewhere, she will be made to play a whole scene with her hands in her pockets. But Miss Cowl is not the whole show by any means. Percy Waram is grand as the stingy and irascible Vanergelder, known to his subordinates as the "wolf trap". Tom Ewell, in the role of Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker...
...their highbrow Negro brethren. Known or not, however, much of it is equal to the best that is being written by U. S. white composers. Most prominent among such Negro composers are Los Angeles' sober-minded William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony), Tuskegee, Ala.'s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro, N.C.'s Robert Nathaniel Dett, long famed as the smart, musically sophisticated leader of the Hampton Institute Choir...
...Paul Levi, London, England--Blundell's School, Tiverton, England...