Word: luana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producers Schwab & Mandel have assembled a notable troupe of beauteous girls for Free For All. Among them: Lilian Bond, whom Oscar's uncle Arthur Hammerstein put in Luana last year before he went bankrupt (TIME, April 6); Vera Marsh of America's Sweetheart; pert Dancer Dorris Groday; Jeanette Loff. late of Hollywood (The King Of Jazz); Dorothy Knapp. a "Most Beautiful Woman In The World" for Earl Carroll and Flor- enz Ziegfeld; lovely Tamara (The Wunder...
Composer Rudolf Friml (Rose Marie, Vagabond King, Luana) was ordered arrested in Hollywood for failing to provide for his ailing 19-year-old daughter...
...face of increasingly stiff competition from such alert young firms as Aarons & Freedley (Girl Crazy), Schwab & Mandel (America's Sweetheart), Green & Gensler (Fine & Dandy), oldtime Producer Hammerstein's shows seemed to grow poorly and more poorly. His first play of this season, Luana, during the rehearsals for which he got hurt in a fight (TIME, Aug. 11), was a failure. His second show, Ballyhoo, was taken over after a two-week run by Funnyman W. C. Fields and the cast. Philosophical about his losses, 54-year-old Producer Hammerstein said last week: "When Mayor Walker comes back...
...enthusiastic reader of your magazine of long standing, I would like to call your attention to a gross mistake in the issue of Nov. 3, on p. 51, under the heading of "Mortality," where you state: "The following presentations have opened and closed since October i: Luana, Symphony in Two Flats, Nina Rosa...
...that 100 performances make a show a hit, during last year's theatrical season 87% of the legitimate productions and 69% of the musical attractions failed. No indication of a lowering of this mortality rate appeared last week. The following presentations have opened and closed since Oct. 1: Luana, Symphony in Two Flats, Nina Rosa, With Privileges, The Rhapsody, Insult, The Cinderelative, A Farewell to Arms, Nine Till Six, Mr. Gilhooley, Roadside, Stepsisters of War, Marigold, Blind Mice, London Calling...