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...opening scenes had been fast, the costumes faster--and the audience sat stunned, shocked, filled with inhibitions. Whoever was running the show must have realized that as far as the spectators were concerned, the show was a flop. Then, he too remembered that he was in Boston. He acted quickly. "Break out the winter underwear!" was his shout. And as the review progressed more and more cheesecloth appeared, and one and two leaf costumes blossomed into whole shrubs...
...nation's birthday party, which should have been somewhat of an occasion, has been a flop. From its opening last May, amid the glory of Shrine rituals, the Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia has proved a grim burlesque. It is now dragging itself to a timely death and the chief, the only attraction which remains is the fact that a celebration of such low vitality could have so long endured; and even this wonder is is explained by the presence of contracts preventing an earlier closing...
...That business is no business at all," decides Abe when he finds himself encumbered with an armful of revolvers. He would rather "sink in his liabilities than be shot by his assets." But Mawruss insists upon going through with it. In handling a Long Island jewel theft case, they flop from the distinguished station of international crime experts to the ignoble confinement of the local gaol. The cause of their downfall: softheartedness and general confusion on the part of both partners regarding the policy of the firm as a unit. Ludwig Satz, notable Jewish actor, assumes the role of Potash...
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...week following Raquel Meller's $27.50 debut, a Manhattan gum- chewers' sheetlet, the Mirror, was out with the news that she was a "flop."* Speculators were described as anguished because they could not unload admissions to her expensive performances ($11 after the opening). Large pictures were displayed of Meller and Irene Bordoni side by side. Bordoni is the wife of E. Ray Goetz, Meller's importer. Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion...