Word: horseplayer
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...because he can't decide how to get out. The first of the two acts sees him oscillating between Paris and London, the one the home of his first wife, whom be thought drowned, the other the home of his second. There is a good deal of horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little by it. The efforts to make him appear mad are scarcely more subtle than the preliminary stealing of his pants. One comes dangerously close to boredom while waiting...
...Horseplay was featured between the halves. The Dartmouth hand chose to burlesque the huge drum of the Crimson marchers, and wheeled one on the field which must have had to duck to get into the Stadium at all. This cardboard monster and its antics caused the Harvard audience to smile with superiority as it gave birth to five little drums. But when the original was exhibited a few minutes later in the role target for the band's bow and arrow stunt, even the most patriotic had to admit it didn't sound very virlie for such a big fellow...
...just to watch Leader Freddie Fisher & colleagues do their odd stuff. On the strength of their antics their Decca records, without any special promotion, were selling well throughout the U. S. The first four had sold out entirely in Chicago. And as they perspired through their nightly routine of horseplay. Freddie Fisher and his boys began getting radio and cinema offers, while taking well-paid jobs at afternoon and early-evening parties around St. Paul...
...Come Across", an omnibus of song, dance, tableau, satire, and horseplay, and all made to order by and for the Hasty Pudding cooks, was handsomely received last night by an audience whose every theatrical appetite must have been satisfied...
...behind last week's horseplay was a perfectly serious and, for the U. S., unique project sponsored by Senator William Marsh of Tonopah and Assemblyman Pat Cline of Las Vegas. If Nevada's Constitution is amended, they will introduce legislation to create a state lottery monopoly, to produce a million dollars a month for division between the State and lucky ticket holders. The State's share will, its sponsors promise, permit abolition of all State taxes...