Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the pit and gilds the hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum major's spinning baton flashed in the sun, and the grass in the park felt as soft as corn silk underfoot. Since opening night last Dec. 19, every audience has reacted in this same wholehearted...
...Fat Lady & Barbershop Quartet. How could a show, blended with such fine old period pieces as a player piano, a sputtering mayor, a fat lady who dances, a plain-Jane librarian-even a redheaded lisping boy and a celluloid-dickeyed barbershop quartet-make the grade on coldhearted Broadway? Talent is only part of the answer. Many an able combination of stage talent has been hooted off the boards on opening night. In this case, there happened to be a just-right blending of first-rate talents...
...quality that bombards the customers as they settle down to hear the rousing overture of the show, a quality that wreathes the Majestic Theater with a sunny-day-at-the-farm euphoria. In a fat Broadway season whose successes deal so clinically with such subjects as marital frustration, alcoholism, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency and abortion, The Music Man is a monument to golden unpretentiousness and wholesome fun-one of the happiest chemical explosions to hit the street since John Philip Sousa himself marched grandly into town, as the Music Man says, when...
From a vast, air-conditioned restaurant with sweeping glass windows, thin, tanned women and fat, pale men peered over thick steaks and cool drinks at the dirt track below. Roosevelt Raceway, the orange-and-magenta pleasure dome at Westbury, N.Y. was having its biggest harness-racing season in history. A record $144 million had been bet in the first 82 days of the meeting. For the highlight Messenger Stake* prize money had reached $108,565, making it the richest pacing race of all time...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette, larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siècle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...