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Boys and Girls Together (Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Yellen & Irving Kahal; produced by Ed Wynn). The late great Florenz Ziegfeld was not overly popular with comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters...
...from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...home made bread, but, in order to qualify, I'll offer my transgression of slipping away from a morning task for a siesta in the wood shed with a huge basket of butternuts. I was fond of them and the supply so generous I indulged past discretion. I fain recall a most distressing followup, which, I am sure, would equal or exceed any after effects of home-stirred apple butter. With this recital I hope to qualify as a member of the "Butter Stirrers" in full and regular standing...
...Angel 1G, one-time ace of the University of Colorado team, to enter the lists against Arthur W. Page '40, undefeated Yardling grappler. Preliminary to meeting Seymour J. Rubin 2L, who took the title in the 135-pound division last year, William T. Hull '40 defeated William H. Fain '39 in a seesaw extra period encounter...
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivifies, Fain would I fathom thy nature specific; Loftily poised in the other capacious Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous...