Word: schwenk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every period. Once more the Crimson outfit's inexperience counted heavily against it. The line-up: PRINCETON HARVARD Britten, p p, Bedell, cp cp, Whitteman Robinson, 1d 1d, Deering, 2d 2d, Duffley McLean, c c, Moyer, 2a 2a, Cleveland Woodward, 1a 1a, Ormond, oh oh, J. P. Hunstle Schwenk, ih ih, J. C. Hunsale
...revivals, were on hand in large and enthusiastic numbers.* Librettos were on sale in the lobby (and up the street for 10? less), but these were for neophytes and not for the initiated, who have stacks of Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan's records at home, know Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's polysyllabic lyrics by heart...
...have emerged for many a year babblings that have made their author's name a trademark for this kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last spring visited the U. S., went to Holly-wood on a new departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter...