Word: hootch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following Representative Casey's speech, Representative La Guardia obtained lurid effects in an oration on "Hootch and Harlots," illustrated in the tabloid sheetlet manner with a gigantic photo of a hard-boiled Coal & Iron Policeman which was passed from hand to hand over the House desks...
...tunes, the big hit of the evening is "On the Brim of Her Old Fashioned Bonnet"; the audience whistles this catchy and irresistible melody as soon as it hears it. "Hootch" is a humorous song, in which the music, however, is subordinated to the words. The other compositions, while light and pleasing, are not, in the main, likely to be remembered. As soon as the mechanical details of the show have been smoothed out, and such capable actors as Mr. Keane have been given parts more in proportion to their talents,--and provided the name of the play...