Word: lorenze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Racketeer was first a German comedy, then it was set to music, now it has been translated, generally revamped with lyrics by one who can write them almost as well as Lorenz Hart: Edward Eliscu. For their production the Brothers Shubert have retained the services of a number of comely girls, some Albertina Rasch dancers with wooly heads, and Queenie Smith. Ingenuous, flaxen-haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening...
...collaboration of Composer Richard Rodgers, and Lyricist Lorenz Hart began in 1919 when they wrote the Columbia University 'varsity show directed and staged by Herbert Fields. The next year, when Mr. Rodgers was 17, they presented The Poor Little Ritz Girl, under the direction of Producer Lewis Marice "Lew" Fields, father of Librettist Herbert Fields. "Manhattan" and "Sentimental Me," two tuneful numbers in the Garrick Gaieties of 1925, made them. Since then the team, joined by the younger Fields, has turned out some of Broadway's freshest musicomedies: Dearest Enemy, The Girl Friend, Peggy...
...Lorenz Iversen, vice president and general manager of Mesta Machine Co., was made president. Machinist Iversen was born in Denmark, went to sea for two years as a machinist, then worked in the U. S. He saw technical training was essential, went to University of Bingen, Germany. In 1902 he returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant...
...production of doubtful dignity is to be put on?e.g., Red Rust (TIME, Dec. 30)?set out to disport themselves in a blithesome intimate revue. Guild subscription members flocked to see, recalling that it was the first Garrick Gaieties (1925) which uncovered Composer Richard Rodgers and Lyricist Lorenz Hart ("Manhattan," "Sentimental Me," "April Fool"), Funnymen Romney Brent and Sterling Holloway, and the young ladies now individually famed as Libby Holman, June Cochrane, Dorothea Chard. At the end of Act I, audiences left such memories to dramatic historians, cackled instead about what capital fun they were having with the present...
...musi- comedy dancers who is still billed as premiere danseuse, justifies the title by leading the chorus, all attired in crimson riding habits, through a maze of green hurdles. And there is Ruth Etting, a pensive blonde who sings one of the best tunes Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ever wrote ? "I Still Believe You.'' Children will hugely enjoy Simple Simon; their elders may profitably join them...