Word: lorenze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queried by TIME for his opinion of Whiteside, ex-Dramatic Critic Woollcott answered: "I only review plays for money." In Too Many Girls (produced by George Abbott) Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who always bob up with something as little like their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...
...intercollegiate league the team won all its matches; in the Metropolitan, five were won, two lost, and one tied. Playing on the team throughout the year were Kenneth White '39, Morris W. Lister 1G. President John J. Fernsler '40, Edward Lorenz 1G, Reed Dawson '41, and Leonard Nash...
...Boys from Syracuse (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by George Abbott) beans the niggerbaby, hits the bull's eye, rings the bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...
...Every cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...