Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champion flagpole sitter, Aloysius Anthony ("Shipwreck") Kelly (see cut), who settled himself for a four-day perch, said he was going to try to get into the Navy when he came down. Durable old Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfmger, 74 (see cut), spectacular Yale football guard of the '90s, wheeled out the high-wheeled bike he had ridden in his youth, unsentimentally handed it over to scrap collectors. Oil-rationed citizens all over the nation worried about the winter, but in long-limbed Cinemactress Loretta Young's heart was no dread. To keep warm on a midwinter night...
...Vaudeville houses and cabarets of the '80s and '90s echoed with tearjerkers: Cradle's Empty, Baby's Gone (Later parodied in Bottle's Empty, Father's Tight), A Little Faded Rosebud in Our Bible, The Little Lost Child, The Letter That Never Came. Thoroughly popular was Felix McGlennon's That Is Love...
Behind the motley songs were a motley crew of people, ephemeral but intriguing. Most amazing entertainer of the '90s was Mama Lou, gnarled, coal-black songstress in a St. Louis brothel. (Paderewski was once taken to hear her sing, became captivated.) A wellspring of melody, Mama Lou emerges as the probable source of three hits of the '90s: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, May Irwin's Bully Song...
...tunes of the '70s, '80s and '90s were nobler and more beautiful, the quoted lyrics, vivid and picturesque as they are, give few hints of it. Lost Chords leaves the reader wondering whether Author Gilbert, in his comment on Dixie, has not hit on an important near-truth-the clue to the popularity of most pop songs: "The words don't mean anything, but there is a skin-prickling element in the melody...
Died. Harrison Grey Fiske, 81, veteran theatrical producer; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was the first man to produce Ibsen's plays in the U.S., fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic...