Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...song score for the new musical gleams with the gilt-edged Porter signet. The author of You're the Top-which inspired a sort of national cult of memorizers and parodists in 1934-always turns out lyrics that are distinctly his own. They brim with stylish grace and colloquial impudence, real comic invention, multisyllabic rhymes, innuendoes about I'amour, digs at social foibles, and easy allusions to famous people and far-off places...
...recent election campaign drew from Serb-descended Ivan still further proof of his versatility. One night in Tucumán he dashed off a poem, declaimed it at a Peronista meeting. Set to lively music, it rapidly became the party's official song...
Married. Jack Buchanan, fiftyish, versatile British song & dance man, stage & screen director-producer; and Susan Bassett, 30; each for the second time; in Salisbury, Conn...
Captain Dan Ray and Don Louria, who have won more dual matches between them in four years of varsity competition than any other pair of simultaneous wrestlers in Harvard history, will be singing their swan song as far as college grappling goes. Ray and Louria, the most dependable members of Jordan's band, will be graduated next month...
...revue has nothing to do with most of the episodes, but some of the lyric writers (there are several) must have felt that another musical with a New York theme was about due, a month or so having lapsed since the last one. Consequently there are a couple of songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant...