Word: yellen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jamaica Inn is the somewhat free rending of Daphne Du Maurier's best-seller of the same name. It tells about the few but feverish days Mary Yellen (lank, pale-faced, sloe-eyed Maureen O'Hara) passed with her Aunt Patience at a creepy Cornish inn, until kidnapped by Squire Pengallon who later jumps from a yardarm, kills himself...
...uplift message of the best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...
AMERICAN LABOR STRUGGLES-Samuel Yellen-Harcourt, Brace...
George White's Scandals has been confected this year upon the principle that a couple of second-hand ideas are worth a single original one. In line with this idea, Lyricist Jack Yellen has taken equal parts of Ted Koehler's Truckin' and Irving Berlin's Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, given them a shaking and poured off something called Truckin' In My Tails. The rest of the twelfth production of George White's periodical durbar largely owes its origin to old burlesque acts, old vaudeville turns, old smoking-room stories. Nevertheless, many...
Three dance tunes in the show are definite hits. "Life Begins at Sweet Sixteen," "Anything Can Happen," and "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You," with music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Jack Yellen, are catcy, have a first-rate swing to them. "Cigarette" and "May I Have My Gloves," are good plugs of the "Cocktails for Two" variety. "Pied Piper of Harlem" is hot but not very original. "Boondoggling" is the cleverest thing in the show, has a nice tune...