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...lush setting which may be one of the last glimpses of old-style Hollywood opulence that cinema audiences will have for the duration. Happy Go Lucky also has love potions, sultry calypso songs and dances by a group of Trinidadians headed by "Sir Launcelot" Pinard, some first-rate Frank Loesser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicals | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Lyricist Frank Loesser's Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain's historic remark as he manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor) had become so popular that the Office of War Information feared the public would tire of it prematurely. The OWI requested broadcasters to limit its performance to once every four hours instead of once every two. Sample stanzas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: War Songs | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...great German romanticist, Robert Schuman, Composer William Schuman is a forthright Manhattan-born Yankee. Son of a lithographer, he started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley composer, collaborating with Frank Loesser in such gems as In Love With the Memory of You. Now he teaches composition and leads the chorus at Sarah Lawrence College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schuman, No Kin | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...That (Mildred Bailey: Vocalion). Cute-lyric-of-the-month (Frank Loesser's, from the film St. Louis Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: POPULAR | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Both talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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