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...talent. On that score the producers of Keep Moving had bad luck.* Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently derivative tunes. Then there are the Singer's Midgets, awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse and scores of Three Little Pigs. The problem of what could be done with midgets in the theatre has long bemused Broadway. Keep Moving has not solved it, but droll, dust...
...Fair, but plenty of hard liquor is served with "meals." Hiram Walker had a big whale-backed building inside which an exhibition distillery was humming. Most of last year's real fun was to be had in the ribald Streets of Paris and in the Belgian and Midget Villages. Last week's Fair vistors found no dearth of villages-American Colonial. Old English, Spanish, German Black Forest, Mexican, Dutch, Italian, Tunisian, Swiss, Irish, Oases, Shanghai. All Villages were run by U. S. citizens. The Midway had been moved to the Island. The side, peep-and girl-shows which...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news...
...confused with the caucus room of the Senate Office Building where the midget sat on John P. Morgan's lap last June...
Potshots at the President-elect, a bank holiday, a many-decked New Deal, a World Fair, Mae West, the midget on Mr. Morgan's lap, Repeal, Rolphing- last year they all laid headlines across the country, inked rotogravures, filled newsreels drumtight and gave Vanity Fair's (then) Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz an idea. With an eye on Laurence Stallings' photostory, The First World War (whose pictures have boomed in more than 50 newspapers-TIME, Feb. 26), Cinemacritic Lorentz edited the pictures of the first New Deal year, pictures of the war on Depression. Last week he published...