Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then I caught the Cole Porter show, "Let's Face It," just before it left for the big time after a few trial spins up here in the hinterlands. I admired the acting, settings, legs, and Danny Kaye involved, but it was the music which most gladdened my heart. Only one song, "Everything I Love," incorporated all the cliches of the type which has come to be known generally as the romantic ballad, and it will probably be the hit of the musical. The others are too unorthodox, or too sophisticated or complex in their lyrics, to reach the heights...
From preacher's son to postman and postman to Pullman porter took up the first twenty-five years of Snowball's life. Religion was the one thing he did not get from his boyhood. At the age of nineteen, while taking mail from the trains, he was "bitten by the bug to see the country at the expense of the Pullman Company." And for the next five years, as porter on the 20th Century Limited, that went from Boston to Chicago, he matured from wide-eyed innocence to philosophical manhood. As for seeing the country, he "looked up its worst...
During prohibition, the master got his degree as "bootlegger, counselor, and legal adviser to students." But his bootlegging was "entirely legitimate," since he imported his booze direct from Canada through pullman porter connections. Moreover, he always sampled the goods to make sure it wasn't poison before directing its flow toward 60 or 68 Mt. Auburn Street. "We were smart in those days," he reflects. "Now, we don't even know how to think...
When two big names like Vinton Freedley and Cole Porter appear on the same showbill, people expect more than just a good show; they crowd to see one of the season's "hits." With a little more cutting and polishing "Let's Face It" should be one of the season's hits, but it is more than the work of Messrs. Freedley and Porter which promises to make it so. Admitting that the lines, music, casting and chorus work are all good, it's the punch of a young lad named Danny Kaye which furnishes most of the "hitting...
...Cole Porter's music is fresh, above the average of musical revues; but a little below the Cole Porter average. Except for "Jerry, My Soldier Boy," none of his latest edition is likely to sell near the number of sheets "Let's Be Buddies" sold this last year. The book has been written with a fair share of inspiration and wit, capitalizes fully upon the current popularity of the defense theme, spends its best moments in a draftee barracks. And it's Danny Kaye's work as Jerry, the rookie, which makes these moments really good. As a singer...