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...Brooklyn, one Moses Anderson, Negro idler, strolled in the spring sunshine, responded vocally to the lambent weather by yodelling a popular song. Children in a nearby public school heard, through the open window, the syncopated quaverings, began to chant the words: Red Hot Mamma.* Teachers besought silence. Disorder continued. Idler Anderson was arrested, charged with committing a public nuisance. Indignant, he asked that his voice be given a hearing. Policemen, magistrate, court officials, listened to the strains of Red Hot Mamma, sentenced Anderson to the workhouse...
...mamma, Red hot mamma, You're the one I need. Red hot mamma, You're some charmer, Yes, indeed. . . . Yon make a music master drop his fiddle, Make a bald-headed man part his hair in the middle, Red hot mamma, Red hot mamma...
There was Frederick Ballard, whose Believe Me, Xantippe! was produced in 1913 by William A. Brady, acted by John Barrymore. Cleves Kincaid wrote Common Clay, Jane Cowl's success in 1915. Mamma's Affair was the work of Rachel Barton Butler. Two years ago there was You and I, by Philip J. Q. Barry. Other craftsmen who learned their trade from Prof. Baker are Eugene O'Neill, Edward Sheldon, Edward Knobloch, David Carb, Jules Eckert Goodman, Kenneth MacGowan (producer) and Lee Simonson (scenic director...
Nowadays, however, the routine has changed perceptibly; after breakfast the question of the precocious daughter is no longer, "Mamma, ought I be starting for Sunday school?", but "Hey! Daddy's swiped my nibble!" The college education of parents, too, which in spite of Mr. Bertrand Russell's opinion to the contrary is genuinely liberal, has created an atmosphere of surprising toleration and intelligence in the home if they wish to read poetry on the day of rest, instead of exercising, modern children, resort no longer to Lewis Carroll and R. L. S. They turn for mental nourishment to the subtle...
...that I stepped out on the dance floor immediately and did fancy steps with Mrs. Bate [wife of one of the U. S. unofficial observers to the Reparations Commission] for 25 minutes straight, without rest,' that I requested favorite numbers including Some Sunny Day and You Gotta Kiss Mamma Every Night or You Can't Kiss Mamma at All. It was also reported that I am growing a tiny mustache...