Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German as well - the two ships had come, manned by Italians but officered by Britons and under armed guard, to pick up oil, to be carried to Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden to fuel ships to carry Italian prisoners from Ethiopia on at least the first leg of their trip to Italy. The British say that it is necessary to get white Italians out of Ethiopia as fast as possible -"to avoid mutilation...
Most of the nation's name bands and singers are signed to movie contracts; many of the nation's hit songs are coming from Hollywood; and Technicolor has overcome a fundamental problem that black & white photography posed; in Technicolor there is no loss of leg-art allure...
...expect Martin to do another strip, you'll be disappointed, although she does show a prodigious amount of leg. Her forte is the musical numbers, and she is superb here. Though Mary may not strip, the chorus does, and Dudley Digges and Ernest Cossart take a bath, but not at the same time. The latter could be cut and the former should definitely be prolonged...
Also back are Tom Holyoke, 24-foot-six-inch broad jumper, troubled by a leg ailment this winter but now rounding into form; Tim Coggeshall, two-miler and cross-country runner who competed in the IC4A meet this winter; and Ward Slingerland, a 1:58 half-miler who is now working on the pole vault as well...
This hardly seems the right moment for a period musical, particularly one with so much book trouble. A bodacious, bawdacious leg show would be more in keeping with the times. In any case, "Away We Go" is an operetta, pure and simple, at its best, witty and charming, and at its worst, prime for a severe blue-pencilling. Not knowing Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," the basis of the libretto, one cannot vouch for the faithfulness of the adaptation, only for its unevenness and absurdity...