Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) The Rodgers & Hart-John O'Hara musicomedy Pal Joey had most of its lyrics and all its tunes written last week; Cabin In the Sky was ready to open this week; Hi' Ya Gentlemen was about to go into rehearsal. At this point, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie was rocking Boston audiences with its lewd gale before sweeping on to Manhattan. Composer Porter's shows-Jubilee, Red, Hot and Blue, Du Barry Was a Lady-are notable for being often the funniest, often the most risque in the business. Very fast, very funny and energized...
...sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang...
...make military supplies. Last week A. O. A. members, who know too much to be fooled, heard a progress report on U. S. preparedness from Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen; from the Army's Chief of Ordnance, Major General Charles M. Wesson; from Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson...
...uptown Café Society was nothing new to its downtown habitues. Two of the boogie-woogie players, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, pounded two pianos. Teddy Wilson, rippling, inventive jazz pianist, played in his own orchestra and in a trio with Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and Drummer Yank Porter, who moons, mugs, smiles ecstatically while he beats it out. The Golden Gate Quartet swung spirituals. Sultry, curvesome, Trinidad-born Hazel Scott, who was trained by a teacher from Manhattan's crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus descended upon...
...dreamy-eyed hogwash about the Mississippi befo' de wa'. The "River" is the Hudson; the "Rhythm" is snappy; and there is very little about the show that is dreamy-eyed. The story concerns a song writing tycoon (variously surmised as a take-off on--(1) George Gershwin, (2) Cole Porter, (3) Palestrina) who has lost his touch; ergo, he hires two very substantial looking ghosts, baby-face Bing Crosby and anything-but-baby-face Mary Martin. The Crosby-Martin arrangement gets hot, finally takes the tune away from tycoon Basil Rathbone. Moral:--Youth Will Be Served. P.S. A gargoyle named...