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Tough, fun-loving little Songwriter B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva was getting along fine at Fox when Darryl Zanuck popped up in 1935 and merged Fox with his own 2Oth Century Pictures. Buddy De Sylva soon parted company with Zanuck, went over to Universal for a while, then to R. K. O. When he parted company with R. K. 0. too, Hollywood said De Sylva was washed...
Possibly as a hedge against the Minsky tone of most of the proceedings, Librettists Herbert Fields & B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva have introduced a bit of innocent juvenile appeal represented by Joan Carroll, aged 8, whose part was originally intended for Shirley Temple and who should please even those who insist on worshiping at that small shrine...
Louisiana Purchase (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; produced by B. G. De Sylva) was the first show in at least three years to charge $8.80 on opening night. In return it offered a rich program:, Irving Berlin music, a Morrie Ryskind book, Balanchine ballets, such headliners as Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Billy Gaxton, Irene Bordoni. Good they all were, but at $7.70 or even $6.60 their efforts would not have come under the head of sweated labor...
...Barry Was a Lady (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by B. G. De Sylva). First show in four years to charge $7.70 on opening night (with seats being scalped at $50 and $75 a pair), Du Barry Was a Lady swept into Manhattan last week with a tremendous advance build-up and the virtually golden guarantees of Cole Porter, Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman...
...When the Hays Office at first thumbs-downed the picture's title, Producer D. Sylva and Director Kanin, an old Samuel Goldwyn man, offered the company a $200 prize for the best substitute. The contest was abandoned when Actor Frank Albertson solemnly submitted as his entry "Du Sylva Threads Among the Goldwyn...