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Rooming houses and likker stores were all sold out last Christmas and Friday night found the city's trees decorated in a Confederate flag motif. From many of these same trees hung nooses and signs saying, "For the first Damn Yankee who touches this flag...
...Cartwheels. Gracie's Working Party is shrewdly hooked up with a patriotic motif. Touring the British Isles, Gracie performs before large audiences of workers, as a part of Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...
...Yanks Are Coming! In other articles, Werth elaborated the mellow motif: "There are today perceptible signs of a desire for rapprochement with Britain. . . . The phrase 'the Anglo-Americans' is no longer favored. ... An ignorant old wife will tell you she knows for certain that Hitler is in America plotting. . . . In comparison, Britain is quite harmless...
Suiting his gait to his brightly-emblazoned jumper motif, Ccedrice waddled from a strategic puddle in the Square. "Of course I always rely on the impeccable taste of Lockit Company. Look here," he exclaimed, producing a clipping from a convenient quack in his ducky attire. "Harvard will be wearing purple guppies on pink underdrawers for the summer season. You bet I'll own them," he gurgled. "They give me such a feeling...
...Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour de force...