Max Liebman

[1] Concurrently, he made his Broadway debut as a sketch writer, alongside others including The Little King comic-strip cartoonist Otto Soglow, of the musical revue The Illustrators' Show.

[3] Undaunted by the short run, he went on to co-write, with Allen Boretz, the comedy play Off to Buffalo, featuring Hume Cronyn.

[4] Back at the Tamiment Playhouse, Liebman recalled, "I was doing all the writing myself" until 1938, when he began working with Sylvia Fine.

He placed Kaye and comedian Imogene Coca in a Tamiment musical, The Straw Hat Revue,[1] which moved to Broadway's Ambassador Theatre on September 29, 1939, where it ran 75 performances through December 2.

Liebman also introduced to Broadway such Poconos performers as Betty Garrett and Jules Munshin, and the choreographer Lee Sherman,[1] with whom he worked on "Make Mine Manhattan."