Max Baer's Graduation From Groton Explained In Green and Adamson's Latest Musical Show

"With the Lodge. and Lowell and Cabot"

We both was like pens in a pod

But somehow at Groton It's easy forgotten

Their grandfather carried a hod

And now they speak only to God."

These lyrics with a piano accompaniment drifted out into the hallway of the Ritz Cariton as the CRIMSON reporter approached the rooms of Johnny Green and Harold Adamson, two young Harvard graduates who wrote the music and lyrics of the current Boston musical comedy "Hi-Ya Gentleman."

The two were huddled over the piano polishing up the newest song in the show: "There's Something Rotten in Groton." This epic ditty is delivered by Maxie Baer and Sid Silvers, who gain admission to college using forged diplomas from Dr. Peadbody's institution.

"One thing I'd like to get straight." Johnny said "is that I never made the Hasty Pudding. One Boston paper said that I was Pudding big shot, but actually I never even got up the steps. Harold did-though You wrote their lyrics for three years, didn't you?"

"Yes," Adamson replied. "I remember one show we did with the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. Everyone was sore s the devil because we brought in two ringers, Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda. That was the first time they met; later on they got married."

After eight years in Hollywood Harold still remembers the kick he got out of making Dean's List. "And I think I got an A once. Yes, it was in a course about the Bible given by Professor Lake. That was the only mark I ever got that I was proud of!"

This is the first time these two Harvard men have ever worked together on a score. "I certainly wish It had been sooner." Johnny put in. "You see. Harold and I have pretty much the same ideas; we're trying to get a young angle on musical comedy music."

"For the last six years I've been on the road and the radio with my dance band and that way you keep pretty well in touch with the public's taste. We hope that as a result our music will be especially hep. Take that "Go Away Blues" in the first act. That's a legitimate boog tone with five lyrics: and it's a very comfortable eight boater. You watch the audience tonight. I think you'll see that they really get it."