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...Manhattan's Lower East Side, Cantor sang, danced and joked his way to stardom on Broadway (Banjo Eyes) and in Hollywood (Kid Boots), pioneered live comedy on radio and TV, set the U.S. humming such ditties as Ida and Oh How She Can Yicky Yacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Stricken with heart trouble in 1952, grieved by the death of his wife and eldest daughter, he donated most of his later years and many of his millions to charity. But charity had always been a big thing with Cantor; he was instrumental in founding the March of Dimes...
Lowell is the poet par excellence of the particular. Too prosy for some tastes, he insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose. He ignores the usual poetical devices that are calculated to woo a reader, makes no concession to sound for its own sake. As he describes Hawthorne in one poem, his head is often bent down, "Brooding, brooding, eyes fixed on some chip,/some stone, some common plant,/the commonest thing,/as if it were the clue...
...cases, Bagley has revived the originals. One song from 1939's DuBarry Was a Lady, for example, illustrates just what sort of lady DuBarry was. Called But in the Morning, No, it is a seduction duet in which a man and woman practically stage an exhibition as they woo in questionable metaphor...
Most of all, Davis shows tact and imagination as an adviser of actors. He spurs the phlegmatic Finch to a thoughtful portrait of the middle-aged man attempting simultaneously to play papa and pitch woo. And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety...
...play is at its best with Lopez-Cepero, Kornbluth, Mills, and Koelb, it is still good when the men of Navarre are lured from their books to woo the ladies of France. Of the eight lovers, Shakespeare only gave Berowne, (Richard Monett), the Princess (Barbara Jean Friend), and the King (David Rittenhouse) substantial parts, and Monette and Miss Friend are for the most part equal to their tasks...