Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike most of his tribe, Porter neither squirms nor seeks solitude on opening nights. He always turns up in evening dress with a superb dinner on board and a large party of friends. He sits way down front, holds court, applauds like...
...small, dark, shiny-haired Cole Albert Porter shares top rank for musicomedy tunes with Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers. Behind Porter lie 17 Broadway shows, including such hits as Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Leave It to Me, Du Barry Was a Lady, Panama Hattie...
Musicomedy's most sophisticated composer was born in Peru, Ind., the son of a fruitgrowing farmer. After graduating from Yale (where he wrote the still popular Bulldog and Bingo) in 1913, Porter went for a year to Harvard Law School, then switched to the department of music. While still a student he had a musical, See America First, produced on Broadway. It contained one Porter song which still makes middle-aged sentimentalists blink over their highballs: I've a Shooting Box in Scotland (words by Porter's good friend T. Lawrason Riggs, longtime Catholic chaplain at Yale...
...returned to the U.S., wrote Hitchy-Koo, 1919, then doubled back to Europe. There he married fashionable, Louisville-bred Linda Lee Thomas, and with the help of a $1,000,000 (coal mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their...
Five years ago Porter broke both his legs in a riding accident. With his legs in casts, and facing amputation of one, he wrote the music for You Never Know in a record-breaking four weeks. He has undergone 30 operations on his legs since, still has both, gets about with a cane...