Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cohan's own words and music and a show-wise script by Sam and Bella (Kiss Me, Kate) Spewack pleasantly evoked the furbelows and gimcracks of a theatrical era in which Cohan wrote shows called Little Johnny Jones and Little Nelly Kelly, and singers stretched "baby" to "ba-ay-ay-ay-bee." Rooney evoked Rooney. But if the tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin...
...down, Producer Sam Goldwyn got the film rights to George Gershwin's Negro folk opera Porgy and Bess. Gershwin's estate and other beneficiaries will get a straight 10% of the movie's gross receipts. Goldwyn, reportedly seeking Calypsinger Harry Belafonte to head an all-Negro cast, plans to release Porgy late next year...
...singles competition, the Crimson players ran into bad luck, as all except Junta were eliminated by the quarterfinal round. Gottlieb, seeded sixth, drew a first round bye, defeated Yale's Sam Schoonmaker in the second round, but ran into trouble in the third, losing to Don Hicks, whom he had beaten 6-0, 6-0 in the Harvard-Amherst match...
...singles Gottlieb was far off his game, bowing to Jon Clark 8-6, 6-0. The Crimson player had considerable difficulty controlling his usually brilliant passing shots, and his game completely fell apart in the final set. At third singles Larry Sears won a very impressive victory over Eli Sam Schoonmaker, 7-5, 6-0. Last year, Schoonmaker defeated Harvard number three man Ham Gravem in two sets...
...first and second singles both Dale Junta and Steve Gottlieb appear to have an edge over Eli sophomore Tom Freiberg and veteran Sam Schoonmaker. In the bottom positions, it is difficult to predict anything about the outcome of the matches, since neither team plays more than two or three matches with ten singles and five doubles, and therefore none of these players has been much action...