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Their leader, Leonard de Paur, 34, is a stocky, scholarly looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beware of Pretty Chords | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...probable starting lineups: HARVARD PRINCETON Batchelder g Douglas Scully lhb Rednor Burrowce rfb Fisher Louria lhb Smith Ogden chb Jones, T. (capt.) Maver (capt.) rhb Meyer Dawson ol Rogers Chun ll Gans Estin of Savage Potter lr Jones, G. Heisier or Saller

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Meet Nassau Today; Princeton Downs J.V Eleven, 27-14 | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...Ol' Man Winter and Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, will chase the required Freshman physical training program indoors Monday, as '51 abandons touch football, tennis, and single sculling for steam-heated basketball, boxing, special exercise, and wrestling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Athletic Training Shunted Indoors by Fradd | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/29/1947 | See Source »

...ol' man River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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