Word: ryskind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thee I Sing", the famous Kaufmann-Ryskind play about love and politics will be presented on December 12 by Leverett House as their annual House play...
...Parents Grant and Dunne cannot overcome the ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes plot. Written by Scripter Morrie Ryskind, produced and directed by George Stevens (Alice Adams), it is too often a moving picture which does not move. Skillful direction saves it from turning maudlin...
Louisiana Purchase (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; produced by B. G. De Sylva) was the first show in at least three years to charge $8.80 on opening night. In return it offered a rich program:, Irving Berlin music, a Morrie Ryskind book, Balanchine ballets, such headliners as Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Billy Gaxton, Irene Bordoni. Good they all were, but at $7.70 or even $6.60 their efforts would not have come under the head of sweated labor...
...represent most of its contributors at their peak. Some of Berlin's music, especially the title song and It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow, is thoroughly attractive, and some of his lyrics are amusing; but Louisiana Purchase does not show the dazzling Berlin of As Thousands Cheer. Ryskind's book is lively enough, but as political satire it is miles below Of Thee I Sing. Balanchine's ballets are skillful but not startling...