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...that's the way Ed Wynn is. He'll say some of his funniest lines in his most hysterical manner, yet he'll be thinking serious thought all the while, "Hooray For What?" his new show, now playing at the Colonial, is crammed full of delicious gags. Nevertheless, every funny line is an effective jab against war. Ed, as Chuckles, the native inventor of strange gases is always wondering what it's all about. "I hear they found a Spanish soldier in the Spanish army," he shricks. "This antuggling must be stopped...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Ed Wynn Advocates Clean Humor and "Philosophy of a Fool" . . . Giggles Way to Peace in "Hooray for What?" | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...this democratized hip-hip-hooray...

Author: By H. L., | Title: THE PEARLY GATES | 11/21/1935 | See Source »

...unless you have read and thrilled to the immortal Robert Louis Stevenson story. But if you have and did, the team of Wallace (face-making) Berry and Jackie (wide-eyed) Cooper will do things to you. The guns go bang, the pirates faw down and the treasure's recovered. Hooray! (Chic Sale Lionel Barrymore...

Author: By Prof. METRO Ebb hack, | Title: Report Card | 9/28/1934 | See Source »

...this would be sufficient to provide the necessary excuse for our forays. Anyone not a Legionnaire would be eligible to join; and since this would mean some 100,000,000 people, we could all dive into the pork barrel with three big cheers and a hip, hip, hooray. Our numbers would be ample to throw the fear of God into a considerable body of chicken-livered Congressmen who become panicky at the mere mention of veterans' votes. The disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that it can override the veto of even President Roosevelt is a thing calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

University--"Fashions of 1934". Bette Davis provides a good excuse, William Powell a poor one, for another Warner dance extravaganza. "Hips, Hips, Hooray." The usual Wheeler and Woolsey antics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/14/1934 | See Source »

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