Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlotte Greenwood is back again in Boston (and has been ever since Christmas), amusing it, scaring it, singing to it, cavorting before it, and even offering to embrace it. For it seems that dramatic expression is not intimate enough, and after the play is over Miss Greenwood overflows with motherly endearments, sings "An Old Man's Darling" in loud and lusty shrieks, and then burlesques sex in a piece called "Moon Melody," using to capacity her amazingly ungainly person...
...play itself is called "Leaning on Letty," by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell. It is taken from "Post Road," one purpose of the adaptation being to include the name "Letty," Miss Greenwood's favorite alias. It begins with farce, but before the first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists...
...disappointed. There are chases in the night, airplanes, motorcycles, machine guns, and just everything. In between times, the gay dashing and apparently (from this picture) boring life at an Army post is depicted to the point where people start getting restless and rustling paper candy wrappers. Plan to miss...
Another disadvantage was in the extremely high frequencies of the records which a rigidly fixed needle would miss. In the new pick-up the needle is fixed in a rubbery substance allowing it to receive delicately modulated vibrations...
...critical spectators at her latest performance, these old acts still seemed Angna Enters' best. Though the audience was gleeful the judicious grieved at the cheaper symbolism of a new piece called A Modern-Totalitarian Hero, or "The glory of living dangerously," in which Miss Enters appeared in a heavily bemedaled uniform and gas mask, went into mock ecstasies over a rose, then tore its petals off in rage at being pricked by a thorn...