Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...
...named it after Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayer, a Manhattan socialite who pioneered the sales of cosmetics in the U.S. and shocked women by telling them to scrub their faces. The Ayer company was not prospering when Lillian Dodge took over as president. Not knowing where to start, she started everywhere at once. She passed on labels, sampled powders, tested perfumes, tested cold creams on her own plump cheeks before putting them on the market...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks in Florida's scrub country (TIME...
When I took the late N. C. Wyeth into the scrub country to begin his paintings for a special edition of The Yearling, he gasped at the "composed landscapes" of the "piercing green palm fronds" and said: "This is fantastic. An artist has only to copy this, and then it will not be believed." Incidentally, the most effective "shots" in the film were exact reproductions of his paintings. And often, particularly at twilight, I look at the "dusty good earth" and it is definitely lavender, or mauve, sometimes actually purple...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in an expensive Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel about poor folks in Florida's scrub country (TIME...