Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosenfeld also placed the highest of his teammates, in the twentieth slot, in the Ivy League Heptagonals held in Van Courtlandt Park on November...
...inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards married). Jazz-happy New York loved...
Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...
...Park Avenue (book by Nunnally John son & George S. Kaufman ; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz & Ira Gershwin ; produced by Max Gordon) kids the multiple marriages & divorces of the ultrasmart set to a fare-thee-ill. Nunnally Johnson and George Kaufman are not lacking in the wit that made them famous - the four-times-married wives and five-times-married husbands come in for a series of brittle wisecracks and a sprinkling of balmy ones. But there has seldom been more unswerving allegiance to a single joke and long before the end it has ceased to be entertaining...
...Opportunitee; but Composer Schwartz gives you nothing whatever to hum. The dancing is agreeably tame, the chorus is more slight than select, the costumes lack charm and the singing lacks body. Leonora Corbett (Blithe Spirit) and Arthur Margetson (Around the World) are helpful performers but no miracle-workers. Park Avenue never catches the mood, or captures the lure, or achieves the high spirits of genuine musicomedy...