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...MEETS GIRL by BELLA and SAM SPEWACK...
...setting is Hollywood but be cause the subjects are avarice, folly and desire, three aspects of human nature that make the whole world kin. The two protagonists, Robert Law (Lenny Baker) and J. Carlyle Benson (Charles Kimbrough), are nuthouse intellectuals-that is to say, screenwriters. Playwrights Bella and Sam Spewack modeled them on the famed '20s collaborators Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Their problem is to put together a film vehicle for a narcissistic cowboy star whose IQ is perceptibly lower than that of his horse...
Died. Samuel Spewack, 72, co-author with his wife Bella of dozens of stage and screen comedies since the 1920s; in Manhattan. The two met as young newspaper reporters in New York. "Sam really fell in love with my writing," Bella later quipped. Masters of the formula farce, the Spewacks conquered Broadway with such hits as Boy Meets Girl (1935) and My Three Angels (1953). They also wrote the text for Cole Porter's classic musical, Kiss Me, Kate...
...progresses. Although the early part of the South Shore production lags, once the musical moves into the pseudo-Shakespearean scenes of "The Taming of the Shrew" set to music, all goes well. Much of Cole Porter's best music can be found in this show, and Sam and Bella Spewack, as everyone knows, succeeded admirably in adapting Shakespeare's play into the framework of the musical comedy stage...
July 30th: "Kiss Me Kate" with the music of Cole Porter and the wit of Bella and Sam Spewack...