Word: mchugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Find Out Director Butler limited Kyser's musical antics to six less than lyric numbers by Jimmy McHugh and Johnny Mercer. The rest of the proceedings involve the attempt of three arch spooks (Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi) to do away with a young girl (Helen Parrish) about to come into her inheritance on her 21st birthday. Whether or not she will survive to attain her majority in the face of such villainy supplies a reason for allowing Kyser to grapple with grotesque props...
...came in, and filled the chairs on each side of him. Never in his life had he felt so out of place. But in an instant there was a friendly voice in his ear: "I don't believe I've met you. . . . This is Mr. Mayberry, Mr. Walcott, Mr. McHugh. . . ." The Sophomore turned to see who had spoken, and found beside him a little man, thin, sandy-haired, mustached. Kindly-faced and attentive, he spent the rest of the meal trying to make the Sophomore feel at home...
Keep Off the Grass (music & lyrics by James McHugh & Al Dubin; produced by the Shuberts) is the first summer musical to hit Broadway. It might as well be any hot-weather revue of the past 20 years, with too few good tunes and too many bad sketches; but it has Jimmy Durante's desperate clowning. Ray Bolger's skipping feet, some pretty girls, some entertaining specialty numbers...
...hanging, Merle Oberon nearer death from angina pectoris. Cinemactress Oberon spends much of her allotted time philosophizing about eternity. When not listening, George Brent spends his time trying to make a getaway with the help of Binnie Barnes. Pat O'Brien (a detective) makes tough faces, Frank McHugh makes funny faces. In a minor part (bright, solicitous Bonnie), Geraldine Fitzgerald looks very pretty, acts very well...
...yard medley relay: Won by Harvard (R. Harris, A. Waldron, T. Shrewsbury); second, Boston (McHugh, Leseur, Dormandy). Time...