Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduction, however, the players settle down in their roles, and though they never lose spontaneity, they appear to hack around much less. The development of the story, written by Arlene Grimes, Jake Severance, and Mary Carleton, is conventional, but Earle Edgerton's staging shows several imaginative touches. The songs are never really captivating, except for "You Gotta Work for Your Wishes," and "Flowers Are Dancing A Minuet," the theme-song finale which the Children's Theatre has used for its last three shows...
...happened in Vienna last fall. When she burst into Carmen's Habanera on the Theater an der Wien stage, she was just an unusually handsome singer from the states. When she finished the song, the house vibrated with ecstatic shouting, and she was a star. One cast member counted 45 curtain calls. The less-demonstrative Met was not so generous last week when the curtain came down (on St. Patrick's Day) on its new Carmen (only about 15 calls), but happy Jean Madeira was serenaded with applause and pelted with green carnations. "I'd be glad...
...cocktail aeon in the Elysian Fields, and the composers gathered at Calliope's. "Let whoever will make a nation's laws," said someone for the millionth time, "if I can make its songs." There was a silence. "Who makes Amer ica's songs these days?" asked Stephen Foster. George Gershwin removed his cigar. "No one you know," he said. "Or probably ever will." "It depends what you mean by the word song," observed Jerome Kern mildly...
...Marie), has now gone Hollywood in a big way with an M-G-M option to produce as well as score five to ten musicals in seven years. For his first, a version of Anna Christie to be called A Saint She Ain't, he has written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps notebooks full of them, from which came his first click, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake (1950). Bachelor Merrill's income...
...reached the Korean front two days before Christmas Day 1950. Only a few weeks later his company (reconnaissance, 7th Infantry Division) was trapped behind the enemy lines. For 24 hours the outfit fought to break through the surrounding Chinese and make a dash for the town of Hoeng-song, which was held by Dutch allies. It is hard to believe that without this experience behind him, Author Anderson could have brought off so knowledgeable a performance as Your Own Beloved Sons. At any rate, it is the skillfully exploited background for the most impressive novel that has come...