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...erotic, tormented mind of the late Playwright Frank Wedekind, a woman named Lulu was a symbol of insatiability. His two plays about her (Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora) showed people helplessly racked by passion, preached: "Only children have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given...
Bacon's own number, "Zulu Lulu," which he sings at the beginning of the second act, proved to be a genuine hit and should meet with considerable success when the show goes on tour...
Perhaps the outstanding hit number of the evening, to judge by the approval shown by the packed house, was Bacon's catchy swing tune, "Zulu Lulu," in which he combined with Hunt. Other dancing stars in the show are Benjamin Welles, II '38, and Cammann Newberry, "Harvard's most beautiful chorine," who appear in the lavish rumba spectacle "Don't Tell Miguel," and McKennan, who is thrown about the stage by Welles in an apache dance...
...composers, Newberry, E. Rotan Sargent '36, and Harold M. Parsons '36 have contributed what has been acclaimed by critics as the "finest music ever composed for a Hasty Pudding Show." Such numbers as "This is the Night," "Lock Your Heart," "Play Some Music," and "Zulu Lulu" found instant popularity with the audience...
Newberry's "This is the Night," ably sung in the show by Lawrence L. Davis '38, is already being played over radio net-works and is soon to be published in New York. Louis Armstrong, dusky bombshell of rhythm, has promised that he will make a record of "Zulu Lulu" in the near future...