Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unity Co-operative Camp at Wingdale, N. Y. last week journeyed the Congressional committee investigating Communist activities (see p. 17). Greeted by booes, the committeemen were speeded by brandished fists, thumbed noses, a lusty chorus. The wording of the farewell chant was curiously, variously reported by leading Manhattan dailies...
...deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million. Of not particularly stern moral fibre, he lets his good fortune unravel him further. His wife leaves him. he becomes a come-on for many, especially chorus wenches with necks for neck- laces. At the crash he is sold out, retires to a bootlegger's farm in Connecticut, whence he indites a form letter to his creditors asking them to advance him the $20,000 he had to begin with, promising to do it all over again...
...born in Sedalia, Mo. His Scotch mother was a schoolteacher; his Irish father was in the hay business. The family moved to Manhattan and Oakie went to school at De La Salle High, left school to be a telephone clerk for a brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made him a star. At parties...
...troupe is Wesley Pierce, whose name does not appear in upper case type with the other headliners, but who thoroughly ingratiates himself with audiences by making difficult feats of acrobatic dancing look easy, by singing inane songs pleasingly, by looking cheerfully funny. There are also 44 personable chorus girls, of whom more is to be seen than of any other group of Broadway females now exhibited. An almost fictitious line in the program reads: "Scanties and brassieres by the Model Brassiere...
Most tuneful air is Willard Robison's Lazy Levee Loungers; hardest plugged, Out of Breath. There is also an enthusiastic if individualistic chorus of eight (24 less than the number of lyricists, librettists, songwriters...