It will linger in the memory of the audience more than any other, with the possible exception of “Beginning of Love” sung by Jane Alden. One of the big song hits of the revue, “Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” was sung by the Loomis Sisters and most of the other favorites. 10.-Replete with humorous skits, tuneful songs, clever dancing, pretty girls and gorgeous settings, the eleventh edition of George White’s “Scandals” was ushered in at the Garden Pier Theatre tonight before an audience that packed every seat and overflowed into the aisles. The following from “Scandals” Win Praise in Opening at Shore, published in The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) of Tuesday 11 th August 1931, bears witness to the instant popularity of the song:Ītlantic City, Aug. Recommended to diversion seekers: “That’s a Bowl o’ Cherries,” a Lew Brown clown chune in the forthcoming “Scandals.”ģ Famous for its theatres, Broadway is a street traversing the length of Manhattan, in New York City. The gossip columnist Walter Winchell (1897-1972) either misquoted the song title or quoted a working title in his column On Broadway 3, published in The Post-Star (Glens Falls, New York) of Tuesday 21 st July 1931: What gave currency to the phrase was Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, a 1931 song that the composer Ray Henderson (Raymond Brost – 1896-1970) and the lyricist Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein – 1893-1958) wrote for the eleventh edition of George White’s Scandals 2.Ģ Produced by George White (1891-1968), George White’s Scandals were a series of revues that ran from 1919 to 1939.
George Jessel 1, in his best Yiddish manner, shows that life is a bowl of cherries (with the implication that he picked a sour one for a wife).ġ George Jessel (1898-1981) was an American comedian.
The meaning of life is a bowl of cherries is unclear in the review of Under Suspicion, a “ Fox Movietone all-talking picture”, published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) of Wednesday 31 st December 1930-besides, George Jessel 1 does not seem to have contributed to Under Suspicion: “The life of a manicurist on one of the big liners is just a bowl of cherries, my boy, just a bowl of cherries with whipped cream on the side.” “And why not?” asked the star manicurist of one of the big uptown hotels the other day. The pretty blondes and brunettes of the delicate touch system are besieging the service departments of steamship companies for opportunities to polish up the nails of seagoers. The earliest occurrence of life is just a bowl of cherries that I have found is from the column New York Life, by Grant Dixon, published in The Tampa Daily Times (Tampa, Florida) of Friday 11 th May 1928: Apparently a shortening of life is just a bowl of cherries, the phrase a bowl of cherries denotes a highly enjoyable situation or experience.
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