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Mary Hulbert (H) 1 Sopiue Porter 18-17, 15-7, 14-15, 12-15, 15-10. Ingrid Boyum (H) d Gus Tuney 15-9, 15-11, 15-13. Patrice McConnell (P) d. Diana Staley 11-15, 15-12, 16-14, 11-15, 15-5. Laura Kaye (H) d. Annie Yales 14-18, 4-15, 15-8, 15-8, 17-15. Sue Safford (P) d. Marry Winnick 15-12, 16-14, 16-17, 13-15, 15-11; Joanne Sherry (P) d. Josie Isolin 16-14, 15-4, 15-10. Betsy Howe (H) d. Risa Williams...
...COMPLETE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER; Knopf; 354 pages; $30 THE LYRICS OF NOëL COWARD; Overlook Press; 418 pages; $25 "Strange how potent cheap music is," wrote Noël Coward about one of his own songs. He was partly right: the melody and rhythm proved irresistible, but the lyric ("Some day I'll find you,/ Moonlight behind you") provided the real power. In an enduring song, notes beguile the ear; words build a home in the mind...
Nowhere is that more apparent than in exemplary collections of lyrics by two of the world's most polished light versifiers, Coward (1899-1973) and his friend and contemporary Cole Porter (1893-1964). The men would seem as different as Piccadilly and Park Avenue. Coward's family took in boarders and lived in London on the edge of genteel poverty. The stage became young Noël's Oxford and Cambridge; he was a professional actor at twelve and England's Neil Simon at 25, when four of his plays ran simultaneously in the West...
...Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, gathered by Musicologist Robert Kimball, is a model of typography, design and scholarship. The oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's growth from restless experimenter to self-assured master. Early on, the songwriter attempted to overturn the bromides of his epoch. When saccharine "Mammy" tunes permeated Broadway, he celebrated a black man who journeyed back to Tennessee only to miss "the great big tall skyscrapers/ And the elevated's roar...
...Porter had written the classic "list" song, Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with its chromatic descent and brilliant cascade of double-entendres: "The most refined lady bugs do it,/ When a gentleman calls,/ Moths in your rugs do it,/ What's the use of moth balls?" For a subsequent show he wrote You Do Something to Me. Its echoing rhymes ("Do do that voodoo that you do so well") were to become a Porter hallmark. But they also betrayed a lifelong preference for facility over feeling...