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...contestants are nice to look at -- knockouts, a couple of them. They are also played by men. This twist gives the burlesque a wierd glow and cues some wonderfully precise writing and acting. Pageant, conceived and directed by Robert Longbottom, never degenerates into drag queens unchained. Like Miss Industrial Northeast (Joe Joyce), who roller-skates while playing the Sabre Dance on her accordion, the show is perfectly poised on the precipice of farce. And like Miss West Coast (John Salvatore), who performs an interpretive dance called "The Seven Ages of Me," Pageant is all about ego and the denial...
...Parliamentary seat vacated when Liberal Rt. Hon. John Henry Whitley retired as Speaker of the House of Commons (TIME, July 2) was sensationally and significantly captured, last week, by Alderman Longbottom of Halifax, England, a Laborite...
Beloved Speaker Whitley had been returned to Parliament from Halifax for 28 consecutive years, in 1918 received 22,136 votes to his Laborite opponent's 4,036 and was elected unopposed in 1924. But obscure Alderman Longbottom polled 17)536 victorious Labor votes...
...radios has rung the chiming voice of the swinging harp, from which one Captain C. H. Longbottom beguiles a sound like a fluid bell...