in New York
from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, pages 186-187:
I also did a take-off on Lulu Belle. That was another Broadway hit, starring Lenore Ulric, that Edward Sheldon and Charles MacArthur wrote. I had met David Belasco, with his collar turned backward, who produced it. In the play Lenore Ulric played a Negro trollop who works her way up to a count and a boudoir in Paris by her diligent whoring. In my take-off on Miss Ulric I sang "You Can't Do What the Last Man Did," and this take-off was later in Africana.
cite as
Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 186-187. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430386936760 accessed: 26 December, 2024
Listening to
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You Can't Do What the Last Man Did
written by Charles MacArthur, Edward Sheldon |
performed by Ethel Waters |
Experience Information
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Gill on Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:42:17 +0100
Approved on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:33:28 +0100