Word: pandemoniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself. The formula is a contraption that keeps a farcical, topical, more or less sexy idea whirling, brings on a character every 46 seconds, drops out a gag every 19, makes a hideaway of the men's room and a rumpus room of the office. Aspiring to pandemonium, the authors never fail of noise; left creatively penniless at the second-act curtain, they spend the third act kiting checks...
...bottles of whisky. After a prosecution doctor testifies that no one could drink that much without passing out, the defense enlists Actor Poston to prove the contrary. And, particularly at the second-bottle stage, Actor Poston shows an amusing gift for exuberant pantomime, as does Director Abbott for moderate pandemonium. But no play can keep from falling on its face just by having the hero continue to do so, and even at its best, even as a jolly intemperance lecture, Drink tends to pall...
Tuesday night an attenuated compendium of Schneider deadbeats returned to prove that in the interim they had not lost their spirit nor their courage. From its opening number, "Billboard March," to its concluding piece, "Pandemonium by All," the band was superb...
Macy's & Gimbels. The strike could not have been more critically timed. Heaped on the million people who normally crowd in daily on New York City's crammed acres were thousands of hot-eyed Christmas shoppers. The press and pandemonium were too much for many of the hardiest; on the second day, thousands of workers and shoppers stayed away. Retailers moaned over million-dollar-a-day losses in sales. Newspapers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in pages of retail advertising. Macy's talked to Gimbels. Macy's President Jack Straus and Gimbels' President Bernard...
...Morgan stares inscrutably through a Wall Street window, Josephine Baker struts her stuff at the U.S.-tourist-packed Folies-Bergère, Al Capone waddles contemptuously in and out of a courthouse, Babe Ruth rounds the bases, Lindy goes into a teetering take-off to make history-and international pandemonium. (The searchers tried but never could track down one storied shot of young Ernest Hemingway feeding a martini to a poodle in Harry's Bar in Paris.) Somewhat less authentically, but no less evocatively, the movie puts together the story of the speakeasy, the gangster, and the upheaval...