Word: custards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little bit of everything dramatically good into his white man's idea of a black man's idea of the Bible stories. Audiences split their sides laughing at the play's account of Genesis, in which "de Lawd," wanting to provide "firmament" for the custard at a celestial fish fry, makes too much, has to create the Earth as a place to "dreen it off." Spectators were thrilled at the Battle of Jericho, titillated by the sins of Babylon, touched by the implicit faith of Moses. The excellent Hall Johnson spirituals drew long volleys of applause...
Popcorn, tonic, and frozen custard offer themselves to these in need of refreshment. By all means go. Nothing could be loss fun. And be sure to take home a Tarzan Bow Set (only $1.50) for the kiddies...
...heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor to be invited to share it. Keystone Comedies gave the U. S. three standard favorites: the chase (most Sennett pictures ended in one), the custard pie, the bathing beauty...
...Republic of Haiti was itself again last week. The mid-summer plague of butterflies fluttered down on the custard apple trees. And in a curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
Most encouraging evidence that the jazz epoch has become history is the improved quality of the current radio broadcasts. Not that the ether is purged to a dull intellectualism, as those who have listened to recipes for cheese custard, and Swedish discuses, will be the first to deny. We still have our "mauvaises quatres d'heure" of advertising belch, Irish minstrels, and Poet Princes...