Kid Boots

Kid Boots
Sheet music cover (cropped)
Music	Harry Tierney
Lyrics	Joseph McCarthy
Book	William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach
Productions	1923 Broadway

Kid Boots is a musical with a book by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach, music by Harry Tierney, and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The show was staged by Edward Royce.

Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, the Broadway production, opened on December 31, 1923 at the Earl Carroll Theatre and then moved to the Selwyn Theatre, where it ended on February 21, 1925,^[1] for a total of 489 performances. The cast starred Eddie Cantor and Mary Eaton, with George Olsen and his orchestra.

The show was billed as “A Musical Comedy of Palm Beach and Golf” and was set at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a showcase for Eddie Cantor, who played the caddie master at the swank club. He gives golf lessons on the side, with crooked balls so the clients need more instruction. He's also a bootlegger and a busybody. He can't be fired, however, because he has something on everyone at the club. The most famous song to come out of the show was “Dinah” by Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young and Harry Akst, added to the finale during the run for Eddie. The song later gave vocalist Dinah Shore, discovered by Eddie Cantor in 1940, her stage name and the theme song for her long running radio and television shows.

The New York Times reported that on closing night, "[j]ust before the finale, George Olsen's band marched down the aisle and serenaded the company, ending with 'Auld Lang Syne.' "^[1]

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Film versions

During the run in New York City, inventor Lee DeForest filmed Cantor in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, in a short film known as A Few Moments With Eddie Cantor, Star of "Kid Boots". In 1926, Paramount Pictures released a feature film version directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Cantor, Clara Bow, and Billie Dove.^[2]

Songs

Act I

A Day at the Club
The Social Observer
When Your Heart's in the Game
Keep Your Eye on the Ball
The Same Old Way
Someone Loves You after All (The Rain Song)
The Intruder Dance
We've Got to Have More
Polly Put the Kettle On
Let's Do and Say We Didn't (Let's Don't and Say We Did)
In the Swim at Miami
Along the Old Lake Trail
On With the Game

Act II

(Since Ma Is Playing) Mah Jong (by Billy Rose and Con Conrad)
Bet on the One You Fancy
I'm In My Glory
Play Fair, Man!
Win for Me
The Cake Eater's Ball
Down ‘Round the 19th Hole
En Route
When the Cocoanuts Call
In the Rough
That’s All There Is

Also interpolated into the show:

If You Do What You Do (by Roy Turk, Lou Handman and Eddie Cantor)
He’s the Hottest Man in Town (by Owen Murphy and Jay Gorney)
Alabamy Bound (words by Bud DeSylva and Bud Green, music by Ray Henderson)
Dinah (by Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young and Harry Akst)

References

^ ^a ^b "'Kid Boots' Run Ends Amid Plaudits". The New York Times. February 23, 1925. p. 25. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
^ IMDB entry

External links

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