Word: moanin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance and if the actors had something to do or say in the last act the whole affair might have turned out differently. Dwight Deere Wiman, whose cruiser Moanin' Low commemorates his (and William A. Brady Jr.'s) highly successful production of the first Little Show, is the producer...
...second act was not equal to this beginning, chiefly because it contained most of the musical ventures which were distinctly below par. Miss Sandra Gale's attempt to revive the "Moanin Low" motif was distinctly a failure while the remainder of the singing depended more on the vitality of the singers rather than their vocal abilities. Walter O'Keefe's "When Yuba Plays The Tuba" was the only song that really succeeded...