Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Growing up in small-town Mason City, Iowa, Composer-Author-Lyricist Meredith Willson tootled his flute in the local band, watched the trotters at the county fair, pumped water for Saturday-night baths, was taught to beware of anyone who smoked cigarettes, especially tailor-mades. "Innocent-that was the adjective for Iowa," says Willson. "I didn't have to make anything up for The Music Man. All I had to do was remember...
...Thomas Mitchell playing Socrates and Claudette Colbert portraying Mary Roberts Rinehart. In his latest drama from real life, I Get Along Without You Very Well, he managed more persuasive casting: Hoagy Carmichael and Walter Winchell playing themselves. The story was a treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script. As an ABC publicist explained it: Columnist Winchell at 60 "has no trouble learning his lines...
...slight but properly parodistic music for all this is provided by Composer Leon Pober and Arranger Bob Thompson. As of now, Thompson is the only Couch collaborator who has been analyzed, but, says Lyricist Freeman, "If we sell 100,000 albums, I will owe it to the analytic profession to be analyzed myself...
...spring of 1956, Producer-Scriptwriter-Lyricist-Narrator-Hero Thomas hastens to inform the audience, he was appointed a special U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, for the coronation of the King of Nepal, by the President of the U.S. And in the interest of art-not to mention the financial interests of the Cinerama people, whose first three productions have already grossed $60 million-he decided to take the Cinerama audience along to see "the glowing fantasy of Asia." Those who accept his invitation will not actually see "the mythical Shangri-La" that Commentator Thomas leads them to expect, but they will...
...anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...