Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired Naval lieutenant named Ora who was also tired of Des Moines, to accompany her. Brunette and shapely, Heloise got a job as a dancer on Captain Kay Parsons' Show Boat, making nightly excursions on the Hudson River. Within two weeks she left Captain Parsons to join the chorus of Rudy Vallee's Revels of 1935 at the Hollywood Restaurant, a torrid Broadway hot-spot notable for its bare performers, bad air and brusque service...
...Telegram, was able to make it known, in a fitting cinematic denouement to Heloise's adventures, that "it is only by chance that today the management of the Hollywood Restaurant . . . announced that Heloise Martin is coming back. There, as before, Miss Martin will toe-tap, perform in the chorus line and dance a number with a jumping rope. . . . Honest, we didn't think it would turn out this...
...over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present-day language...
...last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...
George H. Earle, 4th '39 was selected as the most beautiful chorus girl in the Hasty Pudding Show chorus now in rehearsal at the club-house, and immediately issued a challenge to all beautiful girls to vie with him for national honors...