Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet Song...
...diamond wedding ring, jars of canned fruit, popcorn, etc.). At his last show-scheduled for the usual 30 minutes-the audience held Danny for 91, while he went through his whole repertory of pantomime, mimicry and musical burlesques. He called up kids from the audience. Once, midway through a song, he doubled up with a great belly laugh. "You won't believe this," he howled, "but a little girl in the third row is looking at me through binoculars." At the end of this zany, record performance, the audience sang Auld Lang Syne...
Needless to say, he has a phenomenal memory. He learned Tschaikowsky in one afternoon. In the cinemusicomedy Up In Arms, he made the final, complete burlesque of movie screen credits, in the verses of Lobby Song written for him by his wife, Sylvia. In telling the story of an imaginary movie, Danny sang, in split-second fashion, gradually increasing his tempo...
...Piece of Lace. New York discovered Danny Kaye the same night he discovered himself. A song written by Sylvia was the catalyst. Called Stanislavsky, it kidded the great entrepreneur of the Moscow Art Theater, whose "method," according to Sylvia's lyric, consisted of teaching drama students...
...declined to try them out for Arthur Hopkins. It has seen its homemade "musical biography" of George M. Cohan lead to a smash movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy. It has seen two other homemade musicals, Count Me In and Sing Out, Sweet Land!, produced on Broadway. Last month Lute Song, which Catholic University tried out last season, also opened on Broadway. Last week C.U.'s stage version of The Song of Bernadette started Broadway rehearsals...