Word: oomph
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...though the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey show has traded atmosphere for oomph, its exhibits are much the same as ever. There are no longer any tumbling Japs; but 600-lb., 12-year-old Gargantua is still on display in the basement. The sad, crummy-looking clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still...
...contributes the savvy, it's youth that has the oomph. Pretty, dusky Nightclub Performer Hazel Scott tosses tunes from one end of the piano to the other in a dazzling succession of tempos and keys; and Paul Draper, least typical and most aristocratic of tap dancers, performs in his crispest and most brilliant style...
...only disappointments are Jimmy Durante, who isn't too sharp as a take-off on Harpo Marx, and Ann Sheridan, who-while she seems built for the part in more ways than one-lacks the oomph that she's supposed to have and which her part demands...
Edward Arnold, as a scatterbrained business-executive, does his usual polished job; and Jean Rogers, the other woman in Pidgeon's life, has more oomph for our money than most of the higher paid oomph-girls. For the denouncement, tobacco-chewing Guy Kibbee renders a juicy bit-part as presiding judge of a nonsensical court-scene, in which Pidgeon gets Miss Russell on the stand and proposes to her in the ritual of jurisprudence...
...Lampoon, gave his impressions of the cinema "worsts" of the year. For a month nothing happened. Then the shrewd press agent of one of the forty or so actors and actresses given the Hobbsian Academy award saw the potentiality of the article. The resulting famous altercation between "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan and the 'Poon became known all over the country. It was the only incident that was not staged and pre-arranged. This lone incident in which Harvard was not made to look silly reached a climax when some Hollywood bigwig offered to let Ann's next picture hold...