Word: gladiola
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...Gladiola Campos, an effervescent sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, found herself outside a Los Angeles hotel the other day handing leaflets to a busload of Japanese tourists. "Konnichi-wa," she greeted each one with a little bow. "Good day." The flyers urged the visitors to boycott the New Otani Hotel, which has been fighting a three-year union-organizing effort by its mostly Latino employees. And to reinforce the message, as soon as the tour bus closed its door, Campos and four other college students hopped inside a van and tailed it along the freeway...
...gladiola-banked Pops podium last week, the silver-maned maestro, who is celebrating his first half-century with the Boston Symphony, proved once more that in a city which demands the best in music, his fizzy Pops concerts are the perfect spring tonic. The formula is familiar: two parts classical and semiclassical to one part popular-plus a dash of the unexpected...
...days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
...seemingly lidless eyes or her rumbling subway of a voice; she can pronounce a word as though bending it in two or rush feverishly about her various farm chores as though running bases in some mad game played on Mars. But her large-limbed wackiness. so wildly wrong for Gladiola Girls and Lorelei Lees as to prove wonderfully right, is not quite suited to spoofing high-powered vamps...
...high point of the revue is still that Justy parody of the 1925 road show that got lost, "The Gladiola Girl." In it everyone is competent, and no one outstanding. John Beal, who was given star billing for his part in this and a few other numbers, proves only that this billing was an outright gift. Beal is a pleasant performer, however, who might be excellent with top-notch material...