Word: lilo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shopping for a sponsor) is an exciting guided tour of backstage Broadway, from casting office to dressing room. On his first assignment, Emcee Mike Wallace, smoothly exuding an out-of-towner's wonderment at the workings of the theater, used his tape recorder to get French Singer Lilo's story of her sudden stardom in Can-Can, veteran Hoofer Pat (Guys and Dolls) Rooney's advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from...
...dragging apache number, a legsome cancan, and an enchanting, Garden of Eden ballet spoof, full of flamingoes, frogs and inchworms, as well as Eve and the serpent. As Eve (and several other things), red-headed Gwen Verdon has a wonderfully fetching dance personality; as the Jezebel, Paris' blonde Lilo has lots of voice, as well as personality. Thanks to these girls and the can-can spirit, the show has genuine sex, if only the most intermittent sparkle...
When Budu Svanidze told his mother he wanted to be like his Uncle Sosso when he grew up, she slapped his little face. Uncle Sosso lived in the Caucasian Mountains and spent most of his time robbing and killing Russian soldiers and policemen. Since his home town of Didi-Lilo was a two-by-four hotbed of Georgian nationalism, this made Uncle Sosso rather popular with most townsfolk. But when Budu's mother remembered how Sosso had been sent to an Orthodox seminary to be trained for the church, and how he had subsequently turned so shamelessly irreligious...