Word: show
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collaborating with Freedley, Sherwood Rollins, Jr. '41 and Camman Newberry '37, 2L, wrote the music for the play. Each of the three authors have had previous theatrical experience. Rollins wrote the music for the 1939 Hasty Pudding Show, while Newberry wrote the muisic for the Hasty Pudding productions...
...well-known comedian originated his inimitable bathroom humor in 1928 in a show called "Hold Everything," and with the exception of a straight part in the motion picture "Zaza" he has stuck to it ever since...
...Contrary to popular belief, Harvard suffices are neither better nor worse than the average New York audience," opined Bert Lahr, star of Cole Perrier's new show "DuBarry Was a Lady," in his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre last night. "All shows these days are written for patrons of the Great White Way, and Harvard boys have their pseudo-sophistication...
Furthermore, Mr. Pitts approached Mr. Olum before the meeting with a civil request to be allowed to speak from a printed paper which he offered to show. He was flatly refused...
...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...