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...Sondheim is a spent youth. The son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer, he literally learned his first lessons in the craft of songwriting at the feet of an old family friend, Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen was then eleven; Oscar thought his first pubescent musical "terrible???although not without talent." Sondheim proved to be a good learner. He has written the lyrics (and often the music as well) for seven shows, five of which were hits. Only his 1966 musical, Anyone Can Whistle, a precious fable about a smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with...
WASN'T THE DEPRESSION TERRIBLE???O. Soglow and David G. Plotkin?Covici, Friede ($2). One hundred and five drawings in Cartoonist Soglow's more rowdy, bawdy, free-line manner, together with a treatise by Idea Man Plotkin on the "dialectical message that all is not on the level." constitute the subject matter of this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from...
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