Word: levinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strauss Goes to Boston (music by Robert Stolz & Johann Strauss Jr.; lyrics by Robert Sour; book by Leonard L. Levinson; produced by Felix Brentano) opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...
Premiered at the Shubert Theater Monday night, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" offered at most a pleasing array of music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
...disease-scare headline of the week was that pigeons carry a virus which can cause virus pneumonia. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Army Lieuts. David C. Levinson and John Gibbs and Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph T. Beardwood Jr. reported six pneumonia cases definitely traced to pigeons-two had handled the birds and four lived in neighborhoods where they would easily breathe particles from the birds' excreta in dust...
...researchers: Albert Milzer, Ph.D., Franz Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Sidney O. Levinson, M.D., Howard J. Shaughnessy, Ph.D., John L. Neal, Ph.C...
Those men elected to the business board as the result of last summer's competition are: William Bayliss of Adams House, Donald Brown of Eliot, Douglas Danner of Lowell, Steven Ives of Winthrop, Bernard Levinson of Dudley, Putnam McDowell of Winthrop, Laurence Timtson of Lowell, Don Tocher of Lowell, and Charles Winchester of Kirkland...