Word: savo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with The Boys from Syracuse is no mere Who's Whooey. Every one knows his job. Every cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This...
...working in tragedy and 'high comedy' requires anything greater than performing on the variety stage. . . . At least, these ordinary vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even the late great La Argentina might have envied...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady; TIME...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady TIME...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady, TIME...