Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With "Mexican Hayride," Mike Todd seems to have perfected his formula for war-time entertainment. He is the original money no objeck kid. Breath-taking sets, exquisite costumes, and gorgeous girls all bathed in Hazzard Short's brilliant lighting effects are what Mr. Todd uses for the basis of his show, and a very good basis it is at that. Into this colorful pot pourri he has tossed leering Bobby Clark as a racketeer turned South American good-will ambassador. Also on this "Mexican Hayride" are Wilbur Evans to sing, June Havoc to sing and dance, and Luba Malina both...
...gardens, tends a few chickens, visits his wife's family's country place in Pennsylvania's Poconos. There he skis in winter, and in summer, he shyly admits, he likes to "listen to the birds." Lately he has been working on a Negro folk opera Dreamy Kid (based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill). Jimmie plays three nights a week in a Jamaica bar & grill. He turns down other offers. "I don't want to be held up by hard and fast rules now-I want to give all my time...
...running down the street of Boston's Allston section, a fine-looking kid of seven, perhaps eight. He was slashing with a stick, shouting "A Jew, a Jew, let's chase him!" The Jew, a lad of seven, perhaps eight, was scuttling off, hard as he could go. The Christian Science Monitor man, passing by, had seen it all before, this aggressiveness, this haunted fear, these ugly cramps in the fine faces of boys, born in Boston, raised in Boston, slugging it out in Boston. But neither the Monitor nor any other Boston paper had talked...
...inquiry into why the people of Boston do not love their neighbors ended with their getting a new Police Commissioner. Last Friday the Governor appointed 65-year-old Colonel Thomas F. Sullivan, a South Boston Irish Democrat, to succeed Timilty. Commissioner Sullivan's first statement on Boston antiSemitism: "Kid stuff. . . ." His first official act: to suspend six police officials indicted for conspiracy with gambling operators...
...satirized the world-touring U.S. Senators who loosed a flood of U.S. pride and criticism last fortnight. A writer in the Sunday Dispatch laid the blame for the Darlan deal in Africa and the recognition of Italy as a cobelligerent at the respective doors of U.S. statesmen bent on kid-gloving Vichy and U.S. politicians rounding up Italian-American votes...