Word: ryskind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night at the Opera--George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind loaded the screenplay with more jokes and comic situations than any movie has a right to have. Groucho, Harpo and Chico are fine and have great foils in Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, and the drippy romantic leads, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. Very likely the funniest movie ever made. At the SYMPHONY II, Huntington at Mass...
...school's first director, Talcott Williams, son of a Congregationalist missionary, was a stern taskmaster and a finger-wagging moralist who admonished his girl students not to go around arousing the boys. Williams so burdened his class with assignments that two of its members-Morrie Ryskind, whose lyrics for 1932's Of Thee I Sing won him a Pulitzer Prize, and the late Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky-went on a brief strike...