Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs,-''He Isn't the Marrying Kind" and "Isn't This a Night for Love"-attractive shipboard interiors, and photographic novelties like a shot of the sky with stars assembling themselves into a bar of music. Comment by Mordaunt Hall, onetime British Army officer...
...William E. Fields, Mack Sennett has a comedian who not only is a good actor, but is also funny. His lampooning of the old "mellowdrammer" is shown off to striking advantage by the "Souvenirs" which followed it. On the stage James E. Barton acts the drunk, sings, dances, and paniomimes while the audience adjourns, or wishes it could, to the smoking room. Continuing this, Beatrice Powell gives an impersonation of Schuossle Durante which is too much like him to be pleasant, but her idea of Mae West assisted by the Broadway Beauties is amusing especially when some of the chorines...
Brunswick Record Corp.'s Manhattan laboratory has lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...
...wide oil slicks off Barnegat Lightship-tombstone of the Akron-patrol boats picked up the bodies of Admiral Moffett, Captain McCord (the Akron's master), Commander Berry (last skipper of the Los Angeles). Lieut.-Commander MacLellan and Col. Alfred Masury, Army reserve officer and vice president of Mack Trucks Inc. Also they found the water-soaked logbook of Lieut. Hammond J. Dugan, which was immediately put on an airplane and flown to Lakehurst where sat a Naval Court of Inquiry into the disaster...
...Mack Sennet's comedy, which appears to be included as a chaser for the stiff dose of Blondle Johnson, has a decided effect on the audience--that of making them want to go home. But just when the evening seems to be at its worst, a comic cartoon comes to the rescue, but the "Peanut Vender" spoils that, too. Every cloud has its silver lining, and fortunately for all concerned, Jack (Drums) Powell's excellent performance keeps the evening from being entirely wasted...