Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about a soldier outfit in Hawaii that suffers from too much red tape and not enough women. The cast contains 30 soldiers (six of them former actors) three paid actresses and seven local girls or wahine. The musical gets going with the outfit landing in Honolulu and gaily met at the dock by hula girls. From the wings comes a soldier bearing a sign: "Any similarity between this scene and our actual landing is purely accidental...
Maurice Evans' favorite scene has seductive Violet Salve, a Filipino blues singer, cast as a stripper. When she warbles The Government policy in this war Is to do the job you're suited for, the soldiers chorus back And your job is taking off your clothes, which they then proceed to help...
Mommele, Poppele. Abie was a natural for radio when Anne Nichols persuaded Soapmaker Procter & Gamble to put it on the air last year. Playwright Nichols, who bats out the serial with the assistance of a writer named Alford Van Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...
...Dona Rosita," the spring offering of HDC and Idler, is less than completely successful as a play, it remains good entertainment. Despite handicaps inherent in the translation of romantic lyrics a foreign setting, and an inadequate theatre, the uniformly good and frequently inspired acting of a fine cast produces an evening which is never dull and is occasionally delightful...
There will be two performances, at 3 and 8 o'clock. After the second, at which a group of young Russian Officers will be guests of honor, there will be a dance for the cast and audience...