Word: lyricist
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...infallible talent for doping out horse-race winners. As the Poet Trowbridge, George Gobel should have been a natural. Instead, the only thing that stands up in his performance is his crewcut. He is so meek, mild, and mousy as to seem spiritless. Composer Jay Livingston and Lyricist Ray Evans have concocted some tender little lullabies for him to croon, but Gobel's singing voice scarcely carries the length of a baby's crib. Gobel is a comic miniaturist, and a Broadway stage is too wide-screen for his TV-styled gifts...
Father Dustin's avocation was born in an alley back home in St. Louis, where, as a boy of seven, he discovered "a busted mandolin in a trash barrel, tuned it like a uke, and started picking at it." Rhythm came naturally; his father was a lyricist and vaudeville performer, his mother a pianist and singer who organized and led a 15-piece, all-male dance band. Father Dustin, who never wanted to be any thing but a priest, nevertheless departed for a seminary at 15 with his banjo on his knee. Assigned after ordination to the Holy Redeemer...
...estimated $15 million estate to London's Southwark Cathedral, Oscar Hammerstein II will be honored by the designation of two choirboys as "Hammerstein Chanters," and by a plaque "To the glory of God and in memory of Oscar Hammerstein, citizen of the United States of America, playwright and lyricist." Among the other assorted literary types honored in the ancient church: William Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, John Harvard...
When his collaborator of 18 years, Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, died last summer, Composer Richard Rodgers said sadly, "I can't bring myself to get involved with anyone else." But last week Rodgers announced what he described as the "almost inevitable": partnership with Alan Jay Lerner, whose longtime coworker, Fritz Loewe, had decided on a lengthy vacation from Broadway...
several Broadway marriage brokers-Librettists Fred Saidy and Henry Myers, Lyricist E. Y. Harburg-trying to unite Aristophanes and Offenbach. Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony. For plot they have gone to Lysistrata, with its inspired, antiwar idea of having wives lock their bedroom doors to make their husbands lay down their arms. But in production terms that idea has recurrently inspired more bad taste and ponderous bawdry than it was ever worth, and if The Happiest Girl is no more than middling lewd...