Word: hokum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the land of grease paint, mystery and hokum bursts George M. with a weekly humorous letter for the Sunday News. Think of it! The fellow who press-agented Betsy Ross's Grand Old Rag is going to toot a real Yankee Doodle letter for you every Sunday...
...inch strenuously decorated-that great age when even ladies were upholstered; the 1888 room is all preRaphaelite, with the arts, crafts and esthetics of William Morris, Holman Hunt and deMorgan pottery; ending up with two modern rooms, not too successful, particularly in the dining-room, a product of that hokum theory that if you use enough color it must be modern...
...orchestra quits, brings on a hand-organ impresario who blindly grinds out the intermission music. In the second act Sipperly steps into the cast, replaces the leading man and kisses the leading woman. From then on the show receives generous jabs of hokum, such as the injection of a complete new substitute company of palpable hams when the original cast walks out on strike in the middle of a scene...
...Melody Man. Lew Fields, after an absence, returned to Broadway, a bit more leisurely, a bit stouter, but still screamingly pathetic. His vehicle (by the hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which...
They show us a girl who must decide between staying at home, seeking an operatic career in Paris, and marrying either for money or love. By the aid of that dear old piece of hokum--a crystal globe--they take their heroine through ten breath-taking scenes and several compromising situations to show her the probable results of her different choices. Towards the end, they evidently run out of scenery and words, for they fail to photograph her after she has married the hero. We think this might have been the worst solution of all, although the playwrights, not sharing...