Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorkers would soon see something BIGGER THAN A SHOW-BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. The Hippodrome was boarded up behind signs which warned: SHHH! To a stranger, all this might have seemed strange indeed. But to Broadway its meaning was perfectly simple. Billy Rose was about to open his JUMBO...
...knew that the kind of show he wanted to put on would take months of rehearsal, that to pay a large cast during this period would break him. So he managed to get his production outside the straitjacket supervision of Actor's Equity. Result is that while Jumbo has been steadily in the making since July, and while its premiere has been postponed every week since Labor Day, he has yet to pay his actors a cent...
...Jumbo is no cheap production. Mr. Rose got the peerless team of Rodgers & Hart to write his score, able Albert Johnson to do his sets and to refurnish (cost: $40,000) the fusty interior of North America's best-known show house (rental: $104,000 a year). He hired actors like Jimmy Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Blanche Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last...
...through Pioneer Pictures from its chief, John Hay Whitney, generous angel of the amusement industry. Last week Mr. Whitney and his aristocratic wife, clad mostly in black sequins and carrying a lap dog, were having the time of their lives shuttling between the three widely separated places where Jumbo was taking final form...
Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...