Paul Whiteman

On stage 1 production

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In the literature6 passages

• 21 . David Ewen writes that the Carousel waltzes were taken from a work called Waltz Suite that Paul Whiteman had commissioned but never performed (Ewen, Richard Rodgers , 239). Rodgers, who in his autobiography recalls two other associations with Whiteman in 1935 and 1936, is silent on this point.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Cast: W. C. Fields, Winnie Lightner, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Lester Allen, George White, Jack McGowan, Pearl Regay, Dolores Costelloebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Jimmy Durante, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Donald Novis, Gloria Grafton, A. P. Kaye, A. Robins, Poodles Hanneford, Big Rosie, Tilda Getzeebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• 92 . See, for example, Henry O. Osgood, So This Is Jazz (Boston: Little, Brown, 1926), 131, on claims that Paul Whiteman would make an “honest woman out of jazz.” The imagery linking jazz and womanhood went to sometimes absurd extremes. Lawrence Gilman, reviewing the premiere of Gershwin’s Concerto in F, cited Walter Damrosch’s extended m…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• One of the great things about the house is that Jule Styne used to have his office in it. I used to walk underneath this long passageway from backstage, going all the way under the audience and coming out of the lobby at the back of the house. There was another little office off of that passageway and it had a sign that said “Property of…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• William Collier, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn and the Tiller Girls, and in the “Ziegfeld Follies” cast were Fannie Brice, Bert and Betty Wheeler, and Paul Whiteman and his orchestra.theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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