Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audience participation will be an integral part of HDC's production of Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" when the show enters Sanders Theater next week, according to Martin Schwartz 2G, Publicity Director for the dramatists...
Park Avenue (book by Nunnally John son & George S. Kaufman ; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz & Ira Gershwin ; produced by Max Gordon) kids the multiple marriages & divorces of the ultrasmart set to a fare-thee-ill. Nunnally Johnson and George Kaufman are not lacking in the wit that made them famous - the four-times-married wives and five-times-married husbands come in for a series of brittle wisecracks and a sprinkling of balmy ones. But there has seldom been more unswerving allegiance to a single joke and long before the end it has ceased to be entertaining...
...rest of the show much of a help. Ira Gershwin's lyrics are neat enough, and the mainstay of two lively ditties, Don't Be a Woman If You Can and Land of Opportunitee; but Composer Schwartz gives you nothing whatever to hum. The dancing is agreeably tame, the chorus is more slight than select, the costumes lack charm and the singing lacks body. Leonora Corbett (Blithe Spirit) and Arthur Margetson (Around the World) are helpful performers but no miracle-workers. Park Avenue never catches the mood, or captures the lure, or achieves the high spirits of genuine...
...when it crashed into another derail. Its motormen, switchmen and trainmen, fully aware of the road's bright new prospects, capped the big day by calling a strike. They wanted the 18½? raise already granted to most other railroad workers. This, cried C.A. & E. President Arthur L. Schwartz, would cost $285,000, put the road right back in the red. He offered 14½?. The offer was rejected...
Gloomily President Schwartz contemplated junking the C.A. & E. Said he: "It may be the only solution. Some of the bondholders wanted to liquidate rather than reorganize, anyway. Maybe we should have done...