Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulling some stunts out of Dick Harlow's bag of tricks, and adding a few of their own, Dudley's Ramblers amashed their way to an upset win yesterday afternoon over the highly-favored Lowell House Bellboys...
High Kickers (book by George Jessel, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby; music & lyrics by Kalmar & Ruby; produced by Alfred Bloomingdale) is a musicomedy attempt to bag the spirit of burlesque. The method is simple: the plot is all about a burlesque show. The joke-making is equally simple: always corny and always off-color. The casting problem could not have been hard: gams, old vaudevillians, Hot Mama Sophie Tucker and, to keep everything moving, Hellow-Mama George Jessel. The result is unfortunate: bearable in slivers, terrible in bulk...
Instead it is a flashy grab bag of crime, costume, melodrama, sex, childbearing, social climbing, wisecracking. Whiskey is tossed off by the decanter, money flung away by the bucketful, gangsters invade the marble halls, curtains bang down with gunfire. At the end, the younger members of the family, facing the world of 1941, rebel in "disgust, mistily resolved to serve America rather than swindle...
...annoyance of his mistress' husband, Byron's rooms at the Palazzo Guiccioli were soon "full of conspirational gear and mysterious documents . . . local liberals." Once, when the police were active, the Gambas even let Byron keep "a bag full of bayonets, some muskets, and some hundreds of cartridges." When the revolt finally fizzled (Byron always suspected it would), Byron, Teresa and the Gambas were exiled, at last settled down at Pisa...
Shoppers. In Petersburg, Ind., a woman shopper bought a coat, paid for it with a bag containing 1,850 pennies. In Benton Harbor, Mich., a woman who bought a dress in 1918 took it back to the store, complained it hadn't worn well...