Word: ol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show's reputation probably stems from the fact that, although it has a deficient basic structure, it trims that structure superlatively. Jerome Kern's score provides most of the embellishment, with "Make Believe," "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Why Do I Love You," and "Bill" soaring over the footlights in the greatest procession of hits ever to gild a single production. And Oscar Hammerstein II has achieved in his otherwise drooping book a kind of graceful, turn-of-the-century nostalgia that dominates most of the evening...
...ol' man River...
...book and lyrics for 30-odd musicals, including Rose Marie, Sunny, Desert Song, Show Boat, New Moon, Carmen Jones, Oklahoma!, Carousel. He has written the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs (which has earned him a coveted AA rating by ASCAP), including such imperishables as Indian Love Call, Who, Ol' Man River, Only Make Believe, Why Do I Love You, Lover Come Back to Me, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top, People Will Say We're in Love, June Is Bustin...
Those poor souls whose work-a-day lives are punctuated by the pipe-dream of a home in Pennsylvania's Bucks County are due for a rude awakening. Long fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
...jerk a tear from any baseball fan's eye. Of the 18 bleary Bowery bums charged with loitering "while apparently intoxicated," one gave the name of Marquard. The judge had tenderly inquired: "Aren't you the famous 'Rube?'" Yes, the prisoner croaked, he was "Ol' Rube," who won 19 straight games for the Giants back in 1912. The record had never been broken, but "Rube" was broke. "The magistrate," said an A.P. dispatch, "took a $5 bill from his billfold, handed it to Marquard, shook hands with him, wished him luck and then dismissed...