Word: horseplayer
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Besides being a real pianist, Fats is a marvelous showman. Not only can he add some extremely funny innuendoes to the most innocuous songs, but be manages to put a spirit of horseplay into everything he does that makes an evening of listening to him an event...
...first time in its 21 years of noisy, gaudy convening, the American Legion had its annual party last week with most of the world at war. Despite their routine horseplay which for four days turned Chicago upside down, the Legionnaires never quite achieved the hysteria of former conventions. The high was a veteran in a bonnet flourishing a baby's bottle...
...Fired 150 Fair police and 205 college-boy information cadets. (Irked by their dismissal, one cadet platoon waded through the two mirror pools from the Four Freedoms statues to the George Washington statue, indulged in horseplay...
...soon discovered what was wrong with Anatomy-"it lacked humor." They worked hard to make up the deficiency. Their workshops were fat Mr. Golly's bar, the Hay Hotel (an all-night cabbies' eating joint), Mrs. Mack's brothel. Here, on pawnshop financing, they galloped their horseplay, sang bawdy limericks, chummed with Jenny, the circus tumbler, Liverpool Kate, "the well-known and popular epileptic," Piano Mary, a neurotic socialist whose propaganda was Shakespearean readings in Mrs. Mack's brothel...
Once the boast of Harlem, now just a strong link in the Broadway chain, the Cotton Club doops a lot of colored hotcha and horseplay. Though much of the old animal verve of Harlem has given way to routine Broadway showmanship, the show has winning headliners in Tapster Bill Robinson (see col. j) and Crooner Cab Galloway; a pleasant surprise in Hymn Swinger Sister Tharpe; plenty of jungle...