Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-blown splendor, the average hour-long revue rivals Hollywood and dwarfs Broadway. In less prosperous times, the Music Hall turned out a new show every week. In 1948, twelve shows spanned the year. But against a Broadway musical's two months of rehearsal and tryout, Leonidoff & Co. rehearse a new show just ten days-while playing...
...upper Manhattan last week, 16,000 music lovers crowded into Lewisohn Stadium on opening night of the 32nd season of summer concerts. The weather, for once, was ideal, with stars atwinkle and cool breezes circulating. But, as usual, the fond fans had a few things to grumble about...
...years, stadium concertgoers were more used to hearing Minnie make such announcements as ". . . and tomorrow night we will present one of the greatest names in music-Ezio Pinza Bass." On that occasion she made the show complete by putting on her spectacles, reading her notes and screaming: "Oh, no, that can't be right, that's the name of a fish. I guess it's Ezio Pinza, bass." The crowd also guffawed the night she told the echo of her own voice to shut up. Says Minnie: "When I hear them laugh, I know they expect...
...Want Gershwin. Since the day in World War I when Minnie talked wealthy (copper mining) Adolph Lewisohn (Sam's father) into giving concerts free for the troops in his newly built City College stadium, she has also given her audiences great music year after year for ticket prices as low as 25?. She has given some new composers (George Gershwin) and little-known soloists (Marian Anderson) their first big concert breaks. The stadium's annual Gershwin nights are still its most frequent sellouts...
...makers of Silver Lining tried hard to include everything. There are ornate period sets of hotels and music halls, a touch of Uncle Tom's Cabin played in blackface by Marilyn's family, and the 1918 Armistice exploding in headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never...