Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
...torch singing in the show is supplied by Joan Abbott, a pneumatic, wild-haired blonde with a cannonball delivery. She reaches her lyric zenith with a number called "Mother Eve" which seems to have Adam's wife confused with her competitor Lilith. More suitable for whistling: "Sleepy Moon...
...Moon-faced, round-eyed, George Cukor looks like Producer David Selznick in a convex mirror. Irritated by jokes about the resemblance, he recently reduced 40 lb. in 25 weeks. Pictures full of lavender emotion are his specialty. He made Little Women and A Bill of Divorcement for RKO. He dresses to match in blue ensembles, starched linen trousers in shades of mauve and cerise. An excellent craftsman, temperamental to the point of hysterics, he fumes and fusses for perfection. His next picture will be David Copperfield...
...Whitman, to Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works its ancient way out, knowing No fulness but to live, strongly to live. . . . Cry, sons of earth, blaspheming your parentage...
Last week China was crowing loudly over a marvel unknown to medical history. Not ultraphenomenal sextuplets, not hypersuperlative septuplets, but metaphysical octuplets were blazoned in the headlines of the Chinese Press. Seven sons and a daughter, seven felicitous stars and a comforting moon, were reported to have been born several months ago to the wife of Sam Ting, a Pearl River boatman. Only trouble with this Chinese marvel was that no one could substantiate it because Sam Ting, Mrs. Ting & family were supposed to be boating somewhere in Pearl River delta below Canton...