Word: magoo
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Great Magoo (by Gene Fowler & Ben Hecht; Billy Rose, producer). Broadway, Burlesque, Privilege Car, Lily Turner led a diminishingly interested theatrical public behind the scenes of a night club, a burlesque show, a circus, a medicine show. With one savage sweep, hard-boiled Messrs. Fowler & Hecht have cleaned up the list by setting their play in a sideshow, musicomedy rehearsal hall and flea circus. What happens: A barker (Paul Kelly), who considers all women "magoos" (unflattering sideshow epithet), finally falls in love with a carnival queen (Claire Carlton). When ambition leads her to throw in her lot with a theatrical...
...Great Magoo, Ben Hecht & Gene Fowler's candidate for the Pulitzer Prize...