Word: ryskind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city dumps, she keeps him on as butler because Godfrey (William Powell) represents the outstanding achievement of her frivolous life. Godfrey, ready for renewed contact with a world in which his previous life came to disaster, wants to see if destitution has disciplined him for soft high life. Morrie Ryskind and Eric Hatch have peopled Irene's world with the most completely realistic set of rich crazy people seen on the screen for some time. Butler Godfrey shows the babbling Mrs. Bullock how to get rid of the "little men" that haunt her after parties. He disciplines her musician...
...play, by Kaufman and Ryskind is a beautiful piece of satire on the RFC and the men who run it. Of the two professors who come to investigate Benny, his partner, and their staff of six hotcha girls who run the Black Creek Railroad, one is a professor of anthropology at Columbia, and the other of Hebraic Languages at Harvard. These trusted scholars are delightfully duped by Benny and friends until they are accosted by a man who says that he is an agent for the Department of Justice, whereupon one of the chorus girls pipes up "What's Justice...
...Cake (music & lyrics by George & Ira Gershwin respectively; book by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind; Sam Harris, producer). When the opening scene of this musicomedy began with the familiar martial strains of "Wintergreen for President," Manhattan first-nighters applauded happily. They recalled what a fine show Of Thee I Sing had been, leaned back in their seats to enjoy its sequel. But when the curtain fell on Let 'em Eat Cake there was an embarrassing dearth of applause. Critics and spectators went out grumbling that the nation's great musicomedy quadrivirate had lain down on their...
When Of Thee I Sing was produced, a Presidential election loomed. The show's political jibes were more sharply pointed with every edition of the newspapers. Let 'em Eat Cake concerns itself with a revolution and a dictatorship. Perhaps Messrs. Kaufman & Ryskind could have been more amusing had they chosen to square off at President Roosevelt and the NRA. Instead, their libretto wanders dreamily away into demented unreality...
Inveterate theatergoers will find Boston dull this next week. Of course they can still go to see "Biography" or "Let Em Eat Cake" if they have not done so already; the former is the more finished product. Gershwin, Gershwin, Ryskind, Kaufman, and Sam Harris; the combination should have been able to produce another hit equally as good as "Of Thee I Sing," but success seems to make writers a little stale; this brings me to Mr. O'Neill...