Word: lorenze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote the book; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs. Nevertheless, the combination seems sadly uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when...
Babes In Arms (music & words by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is a dewy and precocious musicomedy about a gang of youngsters who, abandoned by their vaudevillian parents for the summer, put on a revue to keep off the county farm. If for nothing else, the production is notable as a feat of theatrical cradle-robbing; there is hardly a vote in the cast...
...aspect of this exuberance is the obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their...
...situation grew more tense. Dore felt the outcome would be grisly. Principal cause for alarm was the jealousy between Lorenz, cast-off lover of the Baroness, and Philippson. the present incumbent. Sure enough, one day Dore heard a scream. Next time she saw Lorenz he told a cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses...
...Your Toes (words & music by George Abbott, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers ; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is an historic show. Like The Little Show (1929), Music in the Air (1932), As Thou sands Cheer (1933), it stands as a definite milestone in the U. S. musical theatre. Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded. Such was the appraisal of the most gilded first-night audience of the 1935-36 theatrical season - a collection ranging from handsome Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald to Hoofer Eleanor Powell-which roared...