Word: vachel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before opening night, this sort of plot was regarded by Broadway wiseacres as something that belongs in the theatrical graveyard. But when the opening-night curtain fell, most critics were ecstatic. "Marvelous," said the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson. "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is as American as apple pie and a Fourth of July oration." Cheered the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "The brightest, breeziest, most winning new musical to come along since My Fair Lady enchanted...
...Vachel Lindsay, for example, can be heard in the new favorite, "Jim Dandy...
...Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Nell Tangeman and chamber group; M-G-M). A deeply pulsing lament of heavy piano chords (played by Composer Harris' wife Johana) and elegiac countermelodies played by the violin and cello. Mezzo-Soprano Tangeman sings the Vachel Lindsay words with power and feeling to produce some fine music...
Divorced. By John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 32, son of Britain's Philosopher Bertrand Russell: Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 28, daughter of late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay, on grounds of adultery; after eight years of marriage, three children; in Caernarvon, Wales...
...sleeping on hearths or in hollow logs, and sharing what little he had with white folks, Indians and the birds of the air. Before he died at 70, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., his fame was already spreading beyond the banks of the Maumee and the Mohican where, says Vachel Lindsay...