Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy.

Lucy Moore was born in 1970 and educated in Britain and the US before reading history at Edinburgh. Voted one of the 'top twenty young writers in Britain' by the Independent on Sunday in 2001, her books include the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives. More about Lucy Moore.

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Anything Goes is a 1934 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn.

Anything Goes A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore and Publisher Abrams Press. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781590204511, 1590204514. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781590203132, 1590203135.

By Kelli Allred “Times have changed and we’ve often rewound the clock Since the Puritans got a shock When they landed on Plymouth Rock” (All play quotes are from Anything Goes, 1.8). Every enduring play has an exciting and varied history, and Anything Goes is no exception.Written in the early 1930s, Anything Goes originally ran for 420 performances in New York’s newly-built Alvin Theatre.

Print book: EnglishView all editions and formats Summary: Now in paperback, this is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing.'It was a decade that absolutely fizzed - and Lucy Moore has produced an absolutely fizzing book to match her subject.

At first, Marshall seems to hold back on the choreographic elements, but the steady build just makes the seismic tap-dancing explosion of “Anything Goes” at the close of act one even more.

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore. Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under prohibition. But the period was also punctuated.

Anything Goes, Barrowman’s autobiography, is only the second celebrity autobiography I have read (Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn was the first). I have to admit I was a little worried about whether I really wanted to read this book when John Barrowman’s memoir began with him talking about himself as “he,” with interspersed.

Book reviews. Anything Goes! Larry King Review by James Dickerson. November 2000. Backstage and on the page with the King of television talk. For political junkies and devotees of behind-the-scenes drama, a new book by CNN's Larry King is a dream come true. Viewers of Larry King Live know that all kinds of drama and melodrama take place backstage and out of sight during commercial breaks. If.

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I’d been really looking to reading Anything Goes by Lucy Moore; it is a period of history which especially interests me at the moment, particularly after reading Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson and reading a number of novels written in the inter-war period. The book is about the America during the twenties, which I know much less about than.