Word: skylark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...
...Skylark," this week's presentation at the Brattle Hall Theatre, is like a lot of other comedies. It starts off rather slowly and aimlessly, manages to become semi-amusing at the end of the first act, and from there on turns into a really funny show, as the actors and the script lose their awkwardness. It never becomes first-rate comedy, however, because it is never really convincing. The plot and the characters are too trite to make it anything more than a clever drawing-room farce in which the characters speak and act as they are expected...
...Skylark (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Hoagie Carmichael of Star Dust fame and Johnny Mercer of Blues in the Night got together for this rambling, rhapsodic song. Not a top hit, but should...
...first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure Girl, Candle Light with Leslie Howard, Lew Leslie's International Review, Noel Coward's Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 with her old friend, recently Susan and God and Skylark...
Graham and Hupp, both in financial trouble, have dovetailed production lines to make "Hollywood" Grahams and "Skylark" Hupps. Neither is at the Show...