Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Hall imported from his quiet Mount Vernon home minstrelsy's last great survivor, white-haired, 75-year-old Neil O'Brien, star balladist and endman in the days of the late Lew Dockstader and George Primrose. Affably, Oldtimer O'Brien sat through the show, went backstage afterward and made a speech to the assembled company. "Any show that had the Rockettes in it," remarked he, with dry tact, "would be a success...
...minstrel shows also contained the leading clowns of their day (Lew Dockstader's specialty, delivered in a dress suit the seat of whose pants dusted the floor, was a farcical satire entitled "Modern Mother Goose"). For a First Part grand finale the entire company would pass in review in what was known as the "Walk Around...
...Little Chillun (by Hall Johnson; produced by Lew Cooper, Meyer Davis and George Jessel) played for a while on Broadway in 1933, has since then had healthy revivals elsewhere. A Negro melodrama of sex and religion (which are made 0 seem much the same thing), its story is inept, long-winded. What has obviously fetched audiences, even if it has not sufficiently rewarded them, is the well-blended Hall Johnson Choir's singing of well-known spirituals and Hall Johnson's own music...
...sidekick, a resuscitation of the Kildare series, cut short by Lew Ayres' conscience, is entertainment very similar to its predecessor if you lived the way braye Doctor Kilders and lovable old Doctor Gillespie caused various and sundry uproars at the old hospital, just watch the old boy pick out a new assistant from as motley a batch of embryo docs as one could assemble in this war-torn world...
...Benny Woodall asleep together; so he just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...