Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first show Producer Abbott and Playwright Holm have done together since Three Men on a Horse, Best Foot Forward gives every sign of being durable. Handsomely set up by Jo Mielziner, it is bolstered by some fast dance routines tapped together by Gene Kelly, lately the hoofing heel of Pal Joey. The whole show demonstrates once again George Abbott's peculiar knack of making innocence lively...
...Reel and Rock with the Deacon's Flock" will soon be the cry in Kirkland's Common Room. The Deacons are expecting to cough up 30 bucks for the latest in jive and jazz. Rug cutter Ted (Jo McGurk) Meredith is in charge of expenditures and has put up a suggestion sheet on the Dining Room bulletin board...
...people who did not forget were the Chinese, who live on the opposite side of the earth from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations...
...Chinese in occupied China last week celebrated Jo Ee Ba in the fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing eight people. Four bombs commemorated Jo Ee Ba in Canton. The right-side-up nations on the other side of the earth, who so loved peace in 1931, no longer remember either Jo Ee Ba or peace...
...German bombing raids (recorded in London). It runs the gamut of the tear-jerking situations which can confront a family in wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without a line being spoken, draws a round of compassionate applause. No audience can resist The Wookey...