Word: lyricists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which I bring upto support a theory of mine that Oscar Hammerstein II ("Allegro's" Creator and Lyricist) has always been bad when he tries to say something deep, and always good when he lets his sense of humor creep in. And in line with this theory, all the scenes that most people appear to like best in "Allegro" are the lighter ones...
...born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful lyricist at 28 (Shoe Shine Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon) when he and Jule teamed up in Hollywood...
...little man shaped like a cigar stub played a few bars on the piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions...
...folk tune. A record distributer looked it up, discovered it was only twelve years old, and held by the U.S. Office of Alien Property. Its big royalties now go to the U.S. Government. That would make little difference to its German composers: Tunesmith Hans Otten was dead; Lyricist Gerhard Ebeler had dropped from sight...
Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...