Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that Sons o' Fun goes a bit daffy-down-hilly, though still heavily punctuated with gags and gunfire, "auction sales" and dancing in the aisles, black outs and whirring bats, actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with sultry, hip-shaking "Souse American Way" Carmen Miranda (The Streets of Paris}, brassy Ella Logan, peppery Dance-stars Rosario & Antonio, song-&-dance routines, puppeteers, jugglers, performers on a conch-like object called a sing-a-tina...
...sales fell and advertising appropriations became a trickle, the Pinkham brothers got an injunction restraining the distaff side from "interfering in the conduct of the business." But Lydia was not to be restrained. She pursued a petition for receivership, charged Arthur with mismanagement. Far richer than the Pinkhams, Lydia knew full well she could outbid them should the corporation be placed on the block...