Word: bawdier
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...Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes. Instead of Boyer and Colbert, the picture offers James Mason, an actor who could not crack a joke if it was a lichee nut, and Susan Hayward, a bargain-basement Bette Davis whose lightest touch as comedienne would stun a horse...
Princetonians will probably find Jim Cronin's place the closest thing to their own Nassau tavern, on a bigger, bawdier, scale...
...Barbara Allen" and "Blow the Candles Out." The last had a tinge of bawdiness since it was written before "the moral gloom of our own period," when a little spice was taken for granted. Although he hinted that a little spice never hurts, Dyer-Bennett declined to sing anything bawdier...
...laid on as thickly as Prima has been laying it lately, even the most voracious bobby socker gets indigestion. Prima has taken away all of the high rolling rhythms and sweeping operatic phrases which make the latinized jazz of latter-day N.O.W. jazz sparkle and has left only those bawdier mannerisms associated with the fruit man on the corner...
...Shoemakers' Holiday (by Thomas Dekker; produced by the Mercury Theatre). With his modern-dress Julius Caesar still playing to capacity audiences in its eighth week, last week Actor-Producer Orson Welles turned again to the gusty Elizabethans. Bawdier than three burlesque shows, but too disarmingly frank and deftly acted to be offensive, The Shoemakers' Holiday struck Broadway like a brisk wind. Good Queen Bess, never a prude, must have liked it too, and roared like a sailor...