Word: shubertism
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...show has oomph: a limbsome, lightly-robed chorus, and Carmen Miranda, a Brazilian singer whom Lee Shubert spotted in a Rio night club and brought to Broadway. Enveloped in beads, swaying and wriggling, chattering macawlike Portuguese songs, skewering the audience with a merry, mischievous eye, the Miranda performs only once, but she stops the show...
Three hours and a half of musical comedy is too much in any league, and when caught last Monday night Lew Brown's "Yokel Boy Makes Good" at the Shubert, ran to this length. The show, however, was pretty good, and with judicious pruning it might well turn into a smash hit. It has tunes; "A Boy Named Lem, and a Girl Named Sue" is far from corny and there were several others which may break into the summer Hit Parade...
...night life,* while the Exposition looks wistful and envious at such a San Francisco-smash hit as the Ice Follies of 1939. The Fair's Midway is mediocre but alive; the Exposition's Gayway exploits sex (without glamor) to the smutmost; and its chief theatrical offering, Jake Shubert's Ziegfeld Follies of 1939, is a flop...
...later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Chile. They were divorced last year and Clara Driscoll Sevier changed her name to Mrs. Clara Driscoll...
...week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay Shuffle were disappointed by their idol's cold stage personality. Goodman's matchless trio and quartet and the smooth rendition of old favorites like One O'Clock Jump and Don't Be That Way won back wavering allegiance...