Word: ryskind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that, in addition to serving as a full-time partner in each, George S. (for nothing) Kaufman has also set up in the play business with at least 22 other people, once conducting a thriving emporium with the late Ring Lardner, a going concern with Morrie Ryskind, four swanky shops with Edna Ferber, two small hamburger stands with Alexander Woollcott, a pushcart with Howard Dietz, and a sidewalk trade out of a suitcase with Herman J. Mankiewicz...
Joan Crawford (Sun. 7:30 p. m. CBS), Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Reginald Gardiner, Ralph Morgan, Mitchell Leisen, Morrie Ryskind contribute their services to the first program of Gulf Oil Corp.'s series of Screen Actors' Guild benefits...
That the gay course of Merrily We Live is always breezy but never aimless is due partly to its Morrie Ryskind-Eric Hatch (My Man Godfrey) pattern, more particularly to the craft of Director Norman McLeod, whose technique of making every character seem important in neatly overlapped situations makes for speedy, clinker-built comedy. A minister's son, handsome, six-foot, 39-year-old Norman McLeod left Oxford to become a World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry...
Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...
...late Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.") as much for his contributors as for his own writings. Some favorite F. P. A. "contribs," under their own names and various pseudonyms, have been Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Guiterman, Writers Sinclair Lewis Morrie (Of Thee I Sing) Ryskind, Ring Lardner, John Erskine, Edna Ferber, Composer Deems Taylor, Funnyman Groucho Marx...