Word: mama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show-off is so true to life, withal, that many of the show-offs in the audience have been known to remain quiet for several hours after the performance. But soon, with unconscious imitation of Mr. Bartels' manner, they all said, "That's all right, Mama, leave it to me, I'm the little fixer" or "Sign on the dotted line", or "Ha! Har! Haar...
...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...
Miss Brady is too fine an emotional actress to spread her comic talent over a whole evening as she does in Oh! Mama! She has to try to be funny...
...flirting with a second and in love with a third. The fact that the third is the son of the first by an earlier marriage accounts for the title ? if anything can account for so fearful a title. Why they did not rest in the Parisian name, Mile. Mama, is not known. Edwin Nicander and Kenneth MacKenna assist competently. The net result is a fair farce, fairly well done...
Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...