Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where four years ago the President tipped over the Republicans for the first time in 24 years. The train stopped. A huge station crowd roared expectantly. As always, the President let them wait a few minutes. At last the door opened; the crowd bellowed. Out came a grinning porter to polish the brass-work. Another minute, and the President made a carefully timed appearance, got off a little speech timed for the afternoon papers: a quotation of Lincoln's definition of liberty (in effect: liberty for the sheep is not liberty for the shepherd, nor for the wolf...
...orchestra: Swingtime in the Rockies and I've Found a New Baby; Down South Camp Meeting; Sometimes I'm Happy and King Porter (Bunny Berigan featured on both sides); Bugle Call Rag (with some terrific Goodman clarinet); Roll 'Em (arranged by Mary Lou Williams, one of the first boogie-woogie orchestrations). By the trio: Body and Soul (with one of Teddy Wilson's best choruses); China Boy. By the Quartet: Sweet Georgia Brown...
...Panama locale, lusciously tinted by Designer Raoul Pène du Bois, who has also clothed a luscious chorus line in just the right places, gives Cole Porter a chance to indulge his talent for Latin-American rhythms (previous examples: Begin the Beguine, I Get A Kick Out of You}. The Porterian lyric wit is displayed in a trio and quintet titled, respectively, God Bless the Women and You Said It. The tune that seems likely to prove most durable is Panama Hattie's response, in rumba rhythm, to temporary disappointment in love: "Make it another oldfashioned, please...
...last season's Du Barry Was A Lady. Ethel has also made several cinemas, most notably Alexander's Ragtime Band, in which she gave Irving Berlin's classic tunes the de luxe plugging she had long since conferred on melodies of Gershwin and Porter. She has had some fun in Hollywood, including one session in which, during the absence of Don Ameche from his dressing room, she helped to nail his clothing to his furniture. On the whole she is not congenially disposed toward the cinema capital. Instead of the almost invariably warm audience just across...
Before Ethel would sign a contract to appear in her first Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes, she made the songwriter play and sing the score before her and her parents. They vetoed two of the numbers. Since that time, like all Porter enthusiasts, she has been willing to accept his music, sound unheard. He calls her the "most efficient" songstress on the stage. Her efficiency includes her ability, as an ex-stenographer, to take down suggested script or lyrics in shorthand and type them for her own private rehearsal...