Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gold-mine Heiress Nancy Oakes de Marigny sued to annul her 5½-year-old marriage to Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in the Bahamas in 1943 of bludgeoning her father to death. Her charge: he was never validly divorced from his first wife...
...burned off their heads with an acetylene torch; Congress and the Justice Department jostled each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
...Make Mine Manhattan (music by Richard Lewine; lyrics and sketches by Arnold Horwitt; produced by Joseph Hyman) offers gay, lively, irreverent homage to the world's most densely populated island. East Side, West Side, all around the town it darts, its thumb to its nose, but with a slightly dreamy look in its eyes. Manhattanites, swelling, with small-town pride at its air of big-town savvy, will be the show's best audience. But out-of-towners, whether from Butte or Brooklyn, should find...
...Make Mine Manhattan is probably the first revue in years to contain more good sketches than bad ones. One of them takes drama critics over the jumps, another rides Hollywood producers in Manhattan, a third royally kids Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro...
There are just enough weak spots in the program, and inexperienced people in the cast, to prevent Make Mine Manhattan from being a wow. The cast as a whole is not terribly adroit, but it has the conceivably greater virtue of being enormously likable...