Monday, November 12, 2007

Mae West: Friml

MAE WEST racked up a long-running success thanks to Rudolf Friml.
• • Born in Prague on 7 December 1879, Friml was a pianist and composer.
• • Playing opposite Ed Wynn in Arthur Hammerstein's "Sometime," with music by Rudolf Friml, Mae West performed the shimmy for an appreciative Broadway audience. In the dance known as the shimmy, there was hardly any movement of the feet, but continuous movement of the shoulders, torso and pelvis.
• • This light-hearted show opened at the Shubert Theatre on 4 October 1918. The musical closed in June 1919, after running for 283 performances.
• • Time Magazine ran an article on the composer in their November 1939 issue. Friml told an interviewer that Victor Herbert communicated via an Ouija board. Unfortunately, the spirit world never offered Friml sufficient other-worldly advice to help resurrect his career.
• • Rudolf Friml died during the month of November
on 12 November 1972 at age 92.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West.

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