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Poet Frank Ernest Hill's The Westward Star, a narrative of covered-wagon days, points to another U.S. epic that has yet to be given definitive form. Poet Hill plucks his lyre with a surer hand. Though few would compare him with Homer, many would place him close to Masefield. A wagon train bound for the West, just before the days of the gold rush, comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner...
...haled into court on a contempt charge, sentenced to 30 days in the Oxford jail. At Oxford the chancellor of the University of Mississippi saw that Bilbo had three square meals a day. Released after ten days, Bilbo walked out of jail, climbed up on the back of a wagon, announced his second candidacy for the Governorship. During this campaign he took cognizance of State-wide gossip about his sex life. To a female audience The Man Bilbo cried: ''If these stories about The Man Bilbo are true, you've got to admit, Sisters...
Since Three's a Crowd, The Band Wagon and Flying Colors, Composer Schwartz and Lyricist Dietz have been recognized by Tin Pan Alley as a top-notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember...
Three's a Crowd was the next Johnson job. In 1931 he was employed on The Band Wagon. His merry-go-round scene and the Pare Monceau set used a two-way revolving stage for the first time. His colors were strong, but not loud, and his grasp of scenic design was flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have...
...year before the Century's turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two years before he hit on a way of making his business different from any of the other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first...