Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the R.F.C. won't even give it a loan"); dirty (as in the low routines by Coley Worth and Nina Olivette); and some jokes that are neither clean nor dirty, but just dusty with age. The funniest part of the whole show, I thought, was "The Women," a song-and-dance routine in Act Two that satirizes everything from Sadler's Wells to the Old Howard...
Piano Casualty. A brusque soldier who likes to raise his voice in regimental song, 53-year-old Gerald Templer began his fighting career on the Western Front in 1916. Since then, he has generally been found in the thick of things wherever & whenever Britain had a war or her hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot...
Musical Comedy Theater (Wed. 8 p.m., Mutual). The Cuban Love Song, with Alfred Drake, Olga San Juan...
...fascinated by a running Page One story, Leeds Music Corp. set Tunesmiths Larry Clinton and Herb Hendler to work. Clinton & Hendler were held up a bit because of their uncertainty as to just how the story was going to turn out. But 48 hours from scratch, they had their song recorded (for King Records), and by next day Manhattan radio stations were booming it on the air. Chorus...
...Dreams (Warner), Hollywood's latest biography of a songwriter, suggests that the inhabitants of Tin Pan Alley, who are sometimes accused of borrowing their songs, also pattern their lives on one another. This time the old, sentimentalized story of humble beginnings, success, defeat and comeback-all neatly studded with song cues-has as its hero the late, prolific lyricist Gus Kahn...