Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Wine Women and Words by Billy Rose Wine Women and Words by Billy Rose. B1559. BILLY ROSE. Wine, Women and Words � [illustrated by Salvador Dali] [Autobiography]. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1948. 295pp. DJ. Front Endpaper Autographed by Billy Rose. �William �Billy� Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For decades preceding and immediately after the Second World War Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows, such as JUMBO (1935), BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, and CARMEN JONES (1943), his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, and the Ziegfeld Theatre influencing the careers of many stars. Billy Rose was inducted as a member of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 1943, he produced CARMEN JONES with an all-black cast. An adaptation of Bizet's opera CARMEN, the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was an instant hit. The New York Telegraph called it �far and away the best show in New York�; The New York Times said it was �beautifully done . just call it wonderful�. The New York Herald Tribune said that Oscar Hammerstein II �must be considered one of the greatest librettists of our day� and that CARMEN JONES was �a masterly tour de force�. It was made into a motion picture in 1954, for which Dorothy Dandridge received an Academy Award nomination. In 1946 Rose's memoir WINE, WOMEN AND WORDS, dedicated to Rose's early patron Bernard M. Baruch, was published in New York by Simon and Schuster. The book was illustrated, including the cover of the numbered and signed first edition of 1500 copies, by Salvador Dal� whom Rose met while producing events at the 1939 World's Fair.� Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for the ‘Little Napoleon of Showmanship’ Billy Rose’s Autobiography. Billy Rose was huge. He was the go-to-guy. He was a hustler, a mover, the man who got things done. He bought the Ziegfeld Follies, ran a string of hip nightclubs. He was at the heart of the action. You know Billy Rose, of course you do. The ‘Basement Belasco’. The ‘Bantum Barnum’. The ‘Egregious Effendi’. The ‘Little Napoleon of Showmanship’. That was the guy. He was a showbiz legend. A big, big impresario–though in truth he was actually short. A dynamo. Billy produced musicals. Sweet and Low (1930), Crazy Quilt (1931), Jumbo (1935), Sally Rand’s Nude Ranch (1936), The Aquacade (1937) and Carmen Jones (1943). He made stars and co-wrote a helluva lot of songs. You’ll probably know them too. Hits like ‘Me and My Shadow’, ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’, ‘Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?’, or ‘I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten- Cent Store)’. Yeah, those old time songs. Jimmy Caan played Billy Rose in Funny Lady against lush lips Barbra Streisand who played Billy’s first wife big time comedy star Fanny Brice. Old Omar Sharif played the love rival con man Nicky Arnstein–who in real life was the shadow in Billy’s relationship with Fanny, the man who inspired ‘Me and My Shadow’. Billy Rose was huge. He was the go-to-guy. He was a hustler, a mover, the man who got things done. He bought the Ziegfeld Follies, ran a string of hip nightclubs. He was at the heart of the action. Someone who was once so important he even made the cover of Time magazine when that meant something good. Billy Rose in his Tudor City apartment, 1939. Now, when Billy came to write his autobiography Wine, Women and Words , he convinced Salvador Dali to supply the illustrations. Billy met Dali when he was producing events at the World’s Fair in 1939. Rose helped Dali get his Dream of Venus exhibited at the fair. The two became freinds with Dali even painting Billy a series of paintings The Seven Lively Arts as a mark of his respect in 1944. When these were lost in a fire at Billy’s home, Dali gave him a new painting called ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ in 1956 which was also the name of a perfume Dali was hawking. So Billy had Dali supply the sketches for his autobiography first published in 1948. Each sketch illustrated a different chapter which reflected on some important event in his life–like his work in theatre or more particularly Billy’s marriage to his second wife Eleanor Holm who he met while still married to Fanny Brice during the production of Aquacade . There was three versions of the book. The American version is the one you really want to collect as it has more pictures than the British version. Well, whaddya know, I got the British one. It’s a fine book, full of neat stories which are well matched by Dali’s drawings. ‘Wine, Women and Words’ by Billy Rose. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. Wine, Women and Words. 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The book is signed in blue ink with an inscription from the writer, ‘To Jack and ’Bright Eyes’, Affectionate regards, Billy Rose’ . The book is published by Simon and Schuster, 1948. Tweed-patterned spine, red boards, black/gilt titles block at spine with colored Dali illustration on the cover. *Everything But The House does not authenticate celebrity memorabilia. Items that are consigned with Certificates or Letters of Authenticity ( COA ) are listed as such with the item’s description. Autographs without COAs are compared to authenticated examples from online sources prior to sale upload. Binding Hardcover Number of Books 1. Condition. Overall in good shape with some chips to the corners of the cover and lower edges. Some marring to the cover. Biography. Broadway impresario Billy Rose was born William Samuel Rosenberg on September 9, 1899, in The Bronx, New York. Known as "The Little Napoleon of Showmanship," the diminutive Rose made his name and his legend as a producer, writer, lyricist, composer, director and theatre owner/operator, as well as the husband of "Funny Girl" Fanny Brice. Young Billy Rosenberg grew up in the immigrant neighborhoods of Manhattan's Lower East Side. He attended New York City's High School of Commerce, and after graduating, he was trained in shorthand by John Robert Gregg. The 16-year-old Rose won a high-speed dictation contest and went to work in Washington, DC, as the shorthand reporter for the War Industries Board in 1917. As a stenographer, he served the great financier Bernard Baruch, who was the head of the Board, during World War I. Rose first made a name for himself as a lyricist, mostly in collaboration with other songwriters, writing the lyrics to such famous songs as "Me and My Shadow" and "It's Only a Paper Moon" (the latter co-written with E.Y. Harburg). His first hit, a collaboration with Con Conrad, was 1923's "Barney Google," inspired by the comic strip character. Other hits included the novelty song "Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?" and "That Old Gang of Mine." Rose's biographer Earl Conrad wrote that Rose likely didn't write many of the songs he was credited with, other than adding an idea or a phrase or two, but publishers wanted to credit him as the lyricist to boost sales, and his collaborators didn't mind as Rose was successful at plugging "his" songs. Ira Gershwin claimed that Rose, who shares equal credit for "their" song "Cheerful Little Earful," added only a minor change to a single line. Other Rose "co-writers" claimed that Rose insisted upon being credited as an author when he came up with a clever title for their song. Rose's collaborators gave in to his demands because he was a brilliant negotiator who was able to wrest the best terms from music publishers, thus boosting their royalties even when Rose's share was subtracted.