Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chanticleer, an air-conditioned pleasure dome captained by her husband, Outboard Motor King Ralph Evinrude. On hand to greet the yachtsmen was Rockin's most conspicuous author, smilin' Cartoonist Zock Mosley, who normally writes the overage dialogue of comic-strip hero Smilin' Jack. Why had he ventured into the teenagers rock 'n' roll rhythm? Drawled well-preserved Mosley: "I'm hepper than most bobby-soxers...
...Deacon Jack" Hurley, otherwise known as the "Conscience of Seattle," is a manager of professional prizefighters who suffers variously, according to his outraged complaint, from ulcers, insomnia, sinusitis, rheumatism and Republicans. Somehow he still manages to practice his furious skill for conning the public into supporting pugilists of wildly assorted talents, e.g., Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolic and Harry ("Kid") Matthews. In the current issue of Sport, Deacon Jack Hurley spells out his secrets for survival in a world beset by the dangers of women and other amateurs...
...Opera ends its run, the new Mrs. Cassidy will have exactly two days to get down to Dallas, Texas, and begin rehearsals there for a production of Showboat. Her husband, meanwhile, will have a week of freedom before reporting for work on Kiss Me Kate in Boston. Shirley and Jack think that they may be able to get together for a while in September before Shirley goes to Hollywood, but they're not at all sure...
...Shirley's feat of conquering New York in one audition seems incredible, her story of meeting and falling in love with Jack has even more of a fairy-tale quality. Seems that they met last summer when playing opposite each other in a European version of Oklahoma! and proceeded to tour the Continent with both their on-stage and their real courtship. Judging from that show and from The Beggar's Opera, Shirley claims that both she and Jack perform better when they are cast together...
...Director Jack Landau has crammed the production full of some of the most side-splitting stage business I have seen in a long while. He is wonderfully abetted by William Roberts' hilarious costumes and ingenious sets. Even the inexpert wielding of the six portable houses on opening night contributed some unintentional farce that it would be almost a shame to refine...