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Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...
...Manhattan last week the songwriting team which gave the world Is It True What They Say About Dixie?, Composer Gerald Marks & Lyricist Irving Caesar, journeyed from Tin Pan Alley northward to Teachers College at Columbia University to address a summer class in "Safety Care." The class-students, health educators and playground supervisors from all over the U. S.-soon were beating time to fox trots and waltzes with such words...
Referring to the Theatre column in TIME, April 26, your reviewer of Babes in Arms does not opine but states authoritatively-"Lyricist Hart-never topped since he observed in 1925, 'beans could get no keener reception in a beanery: bless our mountain greenery home!'-still maintains the lightest touch in the business...
Having participated in the most refreshing musical show of the previous season, On Your Toes, Messrs. Rodgers & Hart were felicitated for having picked a novel notion this season for the first show they ever provided with a book as well as songs and lyrics. Lyricist Hart-never topped since he observed in 1925 that''beans could get no keener reception in a beanery: bless our mountain greenery home!"-still maintains the lightest touch in the business. As usual, the Rodgers melodies are fresh as a May wind, artful and surprising as the flight of a barn swallow. George...
...Higgins Moses. Conceived in 1916 as a joke by Chicago Lumberman-Banker George William Dulany Jr., the Society has accumulated 30,000 members whose names include George, has cost its founder $6,000. Fellow-officers of Georgia's George are Vice President George Arliss, Poet Laureate George Ade, Lyricist George M. Cohan, Steward King George II of Greece, Sergeant at Arms George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, Patron Saints George Washington & George Dewey...