Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Janet Allen Walker, 70, onetime vaudeville singer who warbled Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, later (1912) married the song's Greenwich Village lyricist, James J. ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime (1925-32) musicomedy mayor of New York, divorced him in 1933, retired to Miami Beach and opened a religious bookshop, had monthly requiem Masses said for Jimmy after his death in 1946; of cancer; in Miami Beach...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...
Divorced. Henry Fonda. 51, drawling actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), screen (Mr. Roberts) and TV; by Susan Blanchard, 27, his third wife, sometime actress and stepdaughter of Producer-Lyricist Oscar (Oklahoma!) Hammerstein II; after five years of marriage, one child; in Reno...
...minutes and I turned to him and said, "All I need is a lyric." Without so much as a flicker, he grabbed some paper and began drafting the rhythm on which to base his lines. I have heard of rapid composers but I doubt if any other American lyricist could equal the speed of Sherwood, or, for that matter, could compose finer poems. His skill was uncanny...
...composer, Victor I. Ziskin '59, has written 16 of the show's songs including the overture. His lyricist is Jay Cavior '57. The Pudding will retain four songs written last fall by Varick Bacon '55 and Clarke Tyler...