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...wrote that musical, The Life of the Party, in twelve days, and it ran nine weeks in Detroit. What's Up (1943) was their first on Broadway. The Day Before Spring (1945) won lower-middling reviews and closed after five months. Then 1947's Brigadoon spread the L. & L. tartan down Shubert Alley. In 1951 they achieved a sluggish eight months' run with Paint Your Wagon, a mining-camp western with an awkward book and a rousing score. Lerner, meanwhile, had been moonlighting on his partnership with Loewe, won an Oscar for the movie, An American in Paris. The partners...
...Lucius was wearing a new bow tie--Ivy Tartan, the salesman had called it--and the question rather flattered him. Usually Lucius never tended his appearance, but today was Mother's birthday, and it seemed special. (That was why he'd eaten...
...when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina to be chloroformed. She is buried to the skirl of bagpipes, but the vet's brokenhearted daughter won't speak to him. How the witch magically restores Thomasina to life, unveils the heart of gold under the cruel vet's tartan, and marries the man provides a fascinating and horrible example of how not to write about animals...
This first novel by Scots Author James Kennaway is a tartan tragedy with comic and eerie overtones like drunken laughter heard through a mist and haunting as the sound of army boots on wet cobbles...
...appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered a low-keyed address saluting American trade unionists as "the living proof that Marx was wrong...