Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hellzapoppin (produced by Olsen & Johnson). When Hellzapoppin opened last season the critics muttered a curt No, but the public howled an emphatic Yes, has been howling Yes, Yes, a Thousand Times Yes ever since. When the new Hellzapoppin opened last week, the critics acknowledged themselves licked. They knew they might just as well try to reason with an earthquake or talk back to a cannon...
...Streets of Paris (produced by the Shuberts and Olsen & Johnson). Once Broadway had a summer season when producers trotted out fleecy and filmy girl shows. But with the decline of musicomedy and the growth of the straw-hat theatre, producers took to estivating. Show business decided months ago, however, that, with World's Fair crowds in the offing, this was to be no ordinary summer. The World's Fair began by knocking show business groggy; but by last week, when the first of the summer musicals opened, show business was up on one knee, with a chance...
...another thing, The Streets of Paris gets good and wacky, as anything must in which those Hellzapoppinjays, Olsen & Johnson, have a hand. Screwiest bit: Bobby Clark waltzing with a stately blonde in an Apache dive, supremely oblivious of the guns that pop, the knives that whiz, the bodies that hurtle all around them...
...Ballyhoo's heyday Editor Anthony wrote a musical show, also called Ballyhoo, which profited from the magazine's popularity. Wracking his brains for a new magazine idea, he hit upon the reverse procedure. With Hellzapoppin still a sellout after eight months on Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote...
...Last week King Features announced a new comic strip, Elza Poppin, to be written by Olsen & Johnson...