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Levy followed his father, well-known criminal attorney Abraham Levy, into law, but also pursued his own dreams of being a writer. Born in Manhattan, he graduated from New York University School of Law in 1911 and worked as an Assistant District Attorney, but found time to write three books of light verse and an autobiography. He socialized with New York's literary elite, and collaborated with Edna Ferber on $1200 a Year: A Comedy in Three Acts.[2] When George Gershwin asked "I wonder if my music will be played a hundred years from now?" he is said to have answered, "Yes, if you're around to play it!" Levy's WorksHis verse and short fiction was published in The New Yorker[3] and also collected in three books: Opera Guyed,[4] Theatre Guyed, and Gay But Wistful Verses. His papers are collected at the Fales Library.[5] ThaisHis review of the opera Thaïs by Massenet is arguably his best known work. The complex rhyme scheme, light approach to a tragic opera, and bouncy tune[6] helped popularize it. One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria, Where nights were wild with revelry and life was but a game, There lived, so the report is, an adventuress and courtesan, The pride of Alexandria, and Thais was her name. And the tragic ending of Thaïs is reduced to a rueful reflection on missed chances: The monk says, "That's a joke on me, for that there dame to croak on me. I hadn't oughter passed her up the time I had the chance." Bibliography{{Expand list|date=January 2017}}Poetry
Memoirs
Essays and reporting
Critical studies and reviews of Levy's work
References1. ^U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Levy, Newman}}2. ^1 {{cite news |title=Newman Levy Is Dead at 77; Lawyer Noted for Light Verse; Careers Embraced Honors at Bar and Authorship of Movie Scripts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/03/23/archives/newman-levy-is-dead-at-77-lawyer-noted-for-light-verse-careers.html |accessdate=June 9, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 23, 1966}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Newman Levy |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/newman-levy |accessdate=May 5, 2017 |work=The New Yorker}} 4. ^Guyed: the past tense of the verb "guy," meaning "subject to laughter or ridicule" 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/coll_mss/levy.html|title=Fales Library: The Newman Levy Papers|publisher=}} 6. ^(composer unknown) 6 : 1888 births|1966 deaths|New York (state) lawyers|Writers from New York City|New York University School of Law alumni|American Jews |
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