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...Yankee"), one with Hammerstein ("Allegro") and one as his own lyricist ("No Strings"). Cole Porter ("Out of This World," "Du Barry Was a Lady," "Can-Can!") and Harold Arlen ("St. Louis Woman," "Bloomer Girl," "House of Flowers") each had three musicals revived, George Gershwin two ("Strike Up the Band," "Pardon My English"). His brother Ira did the lyrics for those and for two other Encores! specials ("Lady in the Dark," "Ziegfeld Follies of 1936"). Jerome Kern ("Sweet Adeline") and Irving Berlin ("Call Me Madam") complete the honor roll of indisputable Broadway royalty...
...lamented "Taboo.") The sad fact is that most people under 60 have put the great old songs out of their head - and, if they hear them, they don't like them. It's as if America took to heart a gag in this years Encores! revival of the 1932 "Pardon My English": "Go now. And sing no more...
...excavated treasure was "Pardon My English," a George and Ira Gershwin romp that suffered a chaotic pre-opening rewrite ordeal, closed after a mere 46 performances in 1933 and had not been heard from since. In 1982, music historian Robert Kimball unearthed the score, along with lost work by Kern, Porter and Rodgers, in a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J. (I'm happy to say that TIME deemed the event newsworthy enough for us to do a story on it.) In a program note, Viertel compares the unearthing of this goofy Gershwin farce "to Howard Carter's discovery of King...
...legal and diplomatic experts apparently still hadn't decided what to do if Jenkins did fly to Japan, although they have several options. An unequivocal demand for Jenkins, one that left Japan no way to say no, could run the risk of alienating Koizumi's government. But an outright pardon, which Japan has suggested, would send the wrong message about discipline and desertion to U.S. troops. A third tack, according to one diplomatic source, would be for the U.S. to ask Japan to hand over Jenkins?but not complain when it fails to do so. In that case, Jenkins would...
...each school who are recruited in those sports, as a group, now…meet a standard based on the average academic qualifications of all students at that school.” Since Harvard’s average academic qualifications are higher than those of Cornell’s, pardon me if I refer to this as the “separate, but equal” clause...