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Nellie Bly (book by Joseph Quillan; music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Johnny Burke; produced by Nat Karson & Eddie Cantor) is the eighth musical in which breezy William Gaxton and quavery, befuddled Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing, Louisiana Purchase) have been starred together. It may also be the last: they are considering turning over their respective talents to Hollywood. As a farewell party, Nellie Bly proves a pretty dismal frost; it even casts something of a blight on the guests of honor...
Terry married Fey, took her to Manhattan. When Fey became pregnant, Terry walked out on her. So Fey danced and sang in low cabarets, read Walt Whitman, and worked in the Quaker hospital where her daughter Lucy was born. "I would not bother with thee, Fey," said the Quaker woman doctor, "did I not know thee has glimpses of the Light within." But naughty Fey glimpsed nothing but Railroad Tycoon Simeon Tower, whom she married after divorcing Terry...
When Oliver Cowdery, one of the faithful, indiscreetly started having revelations of his own, he was promptly rebuked by God in an unequivocal counter-revelation (via Joseph): "Behold, I say unto thee, Oliver ... no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this Church, excepting my servant Joseph Smith...
...have not found thee at the wellhead...
...Godly Man who kept his Sabbaths, his should be blessings of those who walk in the right way. 'These blessings'-the words came back to me from the Evening Lesson-'these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.' And suddenly, in the mild summer air, it seemed as if, like a swarm of bees inadvertently wakened, the blessings of the Old Testament were actually rushing after me. From the hot, remote, passionate past of Hebrew history, out of the Oriental climate and unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm...