Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other costs of his plagiarism suit against Authors George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary...
Play of the Year was Of Thee I Sing, but George S. Kaufman, its author (with Morrie Ryskind), rarely works alone...
More people went to hear Lily Pons sing than heard any other 1932 soprano. But she was new, young, pretty...
...naval officer (Gary Grant) who light-heartedly marries a geisha girl, deserts her when she is with child, returns with his U. S. wife to pay a call when the geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...
Born. To Charlotte Ariel Gibson, 23, Tappan (N. Y.) socialite; and Sidney Herbert Homewood, 24, riding master, her "seducer under promise of marriage" according to a New City jury & judge who last fortnight convicted and sentenced him to $500 fine and 18 mo. to three years in Sing Sing (TIME, Dec. 19); a girl; in Tappan...