Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best talent in the show is droll Will Mahoney. With a hammer on each shoe and a sad expression on his face he makes music by dancing on a giant xylophone? the ''Mahoneyphone.'' Chicago theatre-goers saw this act tried out last year in Earl Carroll's Sketchbook...
...company of principals: Soprano Alida Vane (La Scala); Soprano Anne Roselle (Metropolitan) ; Contraltos Coe Glade and Constance Eberhart (Chicago); Tenor Paul Althouse (Metropolitan); Pasquale Amato, oldtime Metropolitan Baritone trying for a comeback; Contralto Dreda Aves (Metropolitan) for whom a horticulturist in her hometown of Norwalk, Ohio, has named a giant yellow snapdragon...
...engines when a big fire breaks out, is the little group of men & women who strive for fame as flying passengers. Such a one is Mrs. Clara Adams of Tannersville, Pa. who flew last week via Pan-American Airways to Rio de Janeiro, there to board the laggard giant DO-X for its flight...
Broun, untidy and elephantine, acts as master of ceremonies. He contributes a philosophical sketch, "Death Says It Isn't So," which critics said belongs in no revue. He takes part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his curtain talks he fingers his straw hat diffidently, looks incredibly happy when his jokes cause laughter, bewildered when they do not. Sample of the Broun humor: "I made a bet that Abie's Irish Rose wouldn't run a week. . . . Finally I bet that it wouldn...
Described as a "fairy opera for the childlike," Jack and the Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure...