Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese may have desired a base for all sorts of economic penetration of Mexico. They may have wanted a seedling base for eventual military operations: the area is less than 500 air miles from Texas, less than 1,300 from the Panama Canal. But the most plausible theory was that they wanted a base for getting oil across Mexico, in order to avoid the uncertainties and tolls of the sea voyage via the Canal. Some oil for Japan was already being transported across Mexico by rail. Last week Mexicans tried to borrow money in the U. S. to expand rail...
...Rodgers & Hart-John O'Hara musicomedy Pal Joey had most of its lyrics and all its tunes written last week; Cabin In the Sky was ready to open this week; Hi' Ya Gentlemen was about to go into rehearsal. At this point, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie was rocking Boston audiences with its lewd gale before sweeping on to Manhattan. Composer Porter's shows-Jubilee, Red, Hot and Blue, Du Barry Was a Lady-are notable for being often the funniest, often the most risque in the business. Very fast, very funny and energized...
...years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang up on a torso-rolling lady of the cast with the suggestion: "When you get that wound up, set it for seven...
Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
...dyed-in-the-wool musical fan will miss the spark that dirty jokes strike so wonderfully. For sex is at an absolute minimum in this edition. That and Ethel Merman are all it needs to concede to a $4.40 a seat show like "Panama Hattie...