Word: lyricists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Theodora Griffis, 25, daughter of Stanton Griffis, chairman of the executive committee of Paramount Pictures and of the board of Madison Square Garden Corp.; and leftish Lyricist John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 23, author of Ballad for Americans, collaborator on Ethel Waters' latest Broadway hit, Cabin...
Otherwise, Rhythm on the River (not to be confused with Rhythm on the Range) is like the best Bing Crosby musicals which preceded it. With the quiet simplicity of a nursery rhyme it unrolls the fable of a lazy composer (Crosby) who collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin...