bert lahr, the lion? >> the lion.ple were from vaudeville and burlesque. and yip knew them in the 1920's, but he actually worked with bert lahr in this light -- walk a little faster and another revue. i forget that name, but he and -- yip and arlen gave bert songs to sing, which allowed him to satirize the opera world, if you want, or a send-off of rich, you know. and so they had that relationship. also, yip knew jack haley, the tin woodman. and yip also worked with bobby connolly as a choreographer in the early 1930's on his shows, who was also the choreographer for "the wizard of oz." so he had a cast here with arlen who were, you know, sort of yip's men. you know what i mean? so when yip went to arthur freed, the producer, who was too busy to work on this musical, and mervin leroy had nothing to do with it, practically, because he had never done a musical before, so it became a vacuum in which the lyricist entered because he was all ready to do so. yip was always an active, you know, organizer. and so the first thi