Word: spewack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiss Me, Kate (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Bella & Sam Spewack; produced by Arnold Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers) was 1948's last new show, and by far its best musical. It is only a musical, and not, like Oklahoma!, a milestone as well. But if nothing about it is revolutionary, everything is right. Full-blooded and sassy and enormously gay, Kiss Me, Kate can brag about its music at least, without blushing for its book; it looks pretty, moves fast, is full of bright ideas and likable people...
Over the next 18 months, by working hard at it, Mrs. Barnes managed to give away the whole $3 million-"perfectly anonymously." Some of her benefaction, became known only last week: the founding of Manhattan's Chatham Square Music School; the establishment with Playwright Bella Spewack (wife of OWI's Playwright Sam) of the New York Girls' School Scholarship Fund; the organization of the New York Housing Trust, a war-halted experiment in limited-profits slum-clearance projects...
...Meets Girl" by Bella and Sam Spewack is the play chosen by Winthrop House for its annual theatrical production to be shown tonight and tomorrow evening in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
Giving its first performance within the next month, Winthrop has almost completed rehearsals for its spring play, "Boy Meets Girl," by Bella and Sam Spewack. Director Herbert Weiner '44 has east Stan Durwood '43, Vern Miller '12, and Mel Rodman '42 in the leading roles of this breezy comedy. Miss Isabel Hubbard, Radcliffe '42, will take the female lead...
...novel treatment and style, crisp and accurate enough to hold a lot of attention. "The Boy-Girl Relationship" naturally concerns just that. Only the boy never meets, or tries to get, or loses girl. His love, which is completely accidental, is a pleasant variation of an old Bella Spewack theme...