Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordion-playing as for his clowning- for years wanted to play a legitimate role. "I'm tired"' said he, "of being an Edgar Bergen." Recently his ambition soared at the thought of playing the lead role of a hoofer in Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, while his "idealism" was aroused by the play's anti-war message...
Baker made arrangements with the Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...
...would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the city of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. . . . Los Angeles is the source and home of more political, economic and religious idiocy than all the rest of the country together...
...Bogen's decline & fall. Harry is such a skunk-like character that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In this sequel Author Weidman gives Harry a moral shellacking which only an idiot could miss. But before Harry goes down he puts on a fast show. After loafing three months on his last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble is that Martha is a smarter guy than Harry: Before she is through with...
...some 50 famed legitimate stage stars, including Helen Hayes. Walter Hampden. Willie and Eugene Howard, Jane Cowl, Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord, Fred Stone, Eugenie Leontovich, Ethel Barrymore, and such oddities as Author Sinclair Lewis in his own It Can't Happen Here (Cohasset, Mass.); Accordionist Phil Baker in Idiot's Delight (Dennis, Mass...