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High Kickers (book by George Jessel, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby; music & lyrics by Kalmar & Ruby; produced by Alfred Bloomingdale) is a musicomedy attempt to bag the spirit of burlesque. The method is simple: the plot is all about a burlesque show. The joke-making is equally simple: always corny and always off-color. The casting problem could not have been hard: gams, old vaudevillians, Hot Mama Sophie Tucker and, to keep everything moving, Hellow-Mama George Jessel. The result is unfortunate: bearable in slivers, terrible in bulk...
...many U. S. citizens know that the Delaware Bay region was colonized by Sweden nearly 40 years before the pious arrival of long-haired William Penn. In 1638 Sweden's Mayflower, the Kalmar Nyckel, put colonists ashore at what is now known as The Rocks, near the site of the present city of Wilmington. The settlement, named Christina in honor of Sweden's young queen, scarcely got started before it was lost to the Dutch and then to the English. As the prelude to a tercentenary celebration of New Sweden next year, an exhibition of Swedish art opened...
...summary: HARVARD 1936 M.I.T. 1936 Comfor, Littman, Saxton, l.f. r.f., Thornton, Kalmar, Garth, Canning Ernst, Greeley, r.f. l.f., Garth, Thornton Silsby, Sherwood, c. c., Bandomer Smith, Gibbs, l.g. r.g., Du Pont Grady, Knapp, feibleman, r.g. l.g., Morgan...
...Thinking of You" from The Five O'Clock Girl-Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby...