Word: writes
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...much effect this reminiscence had when Gertrude S. got together with Virgil T. in 1946 to write their third major opera is unknown. The influence of the indefatigable Miss Anthony, whose 86-year life span is the opera's subject, seems certain. Librettist Gertrude S. hints at the link in Scene Four of The Mother of Us All: "If people are rich," says Susan B., "they do not listen to anybody; if they are poor, they listen; but all they perceive is the fact that they are listening. As for me, there is no wealth nor poverty, as long...
...write anything less realistic, less straightforward than 'the cat sat on the mat,'" A. A. Milne (rhymes with kiln) once complained, "I am [called] whimsical." To Alan Alexander Milne, whimsical was the most "loathsome adjective," but it was one that he could never escape. No matter how many adult plays and novels he wrote, he was forever the biographer of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. On starting one of his children's books. Critic Dorothy Parker once reported that on page five "Tonstant Weader fwowed up." Milne's other readers had an entirely different reaction...
...Milne became an assistant editor of Punch, got married, and while serving as a signaling officer in World War I. wrote a play called Wurzel-Flummery. By 1923, he found himself a success. Then one day the lady editor of a new children's magazine asked him to write some verses. "I said that I didn't and couldn't, it wasn't in my line." As it turned...
...problem that the senator raised. A few weeks before, one of Furbush's colleagues had even suggested a song: Harvard's football classic, "The Gridiron King" ("Hit the line for Harvard ..."). This legislator hoped someone would write new words to "The Gridiron King," much as the State of Maryland had adapted the old German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" to its own purposes. This suggestion, however, evoked sharp editorial response from the ever-watchful Boston Herald: "Leave the songs to the birds and Tin-Pan Alley." The Herald's plan, however, does not appear to be the most practical solution. Massachusetts...
Bacon and Tyler's original show, "The Golden Fleecer," was found unacceptable to the Pudding in the fall. Ziskin was asked to write new music, but it was not known until yesterday whether the Administration would permit his participation. He has studied under Leonard Bernstein, Roger Sessions, and Kay Swift...