Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity to sing, dance, or be funny, J. Edward Bromberg, Warde Donavan, Alma Kaye, and Margaret Phelan seem highly unsuited to musical comedy. Towering Frank Marlowe's amusing facial expressions and amazing Falls put over a questionable production entitled "I wanna Go to City College," and Gus Van did well with a quaint ditty called "MuInerney's Farm...
First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...
Next week will see a seven man Varsity running on the foreign soil of Van Cortlandt Park in New York City in the traditional Ivy League Heptagonals, which since the beginning of the war have included Army and Navy to make a total of nine college on the roster. Harriers Gurley, Cogan and the other top men will get another crack at their major H if they can squeeze into the first seven places...
Naughty-Naught (book by John Van Antwerp; music & lyrics by Richard Lewine & Ted Fetter) is a hiss-the-villain burlesque of turn-of-the-century college life-a sort of Frank Merriwell at Yale served up with beer & pretzels-that had a nice off-Broadway run in 1937. But such things have gone on & on since 1937, they are all much alike, and each one, to get by, calls for stronger drinks and steadier drinking than the last...
...Again. To some, the parallel between last week and 1919-when the fall of commodity prices heralded the 1920 "snap" depression-was so clear that one U.S. Department of Commerce expert remarked: "If a modern Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in 1919 . . . and awakened in 1946, he would feel very much at home...