Word: paprika
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really important is the fact that Messrs. Lardner and Kaufman show themselves to be irreverent Boswells of Tin Pan Alley. They know, for instance, all about its soiled, impertinent goddesses. One of these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares...
Reminiscing of the home in which she had visited M. & Mine. Raditch and the Seven Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...
...Bill's vast radicalism seemed faintly conservative; he was a prophet no longer and he became slowly almost without honor. He lived in the Lux hotel with the rest of the important useless exiles from foreign countries; newspaper correspondents brought him U. S. papers or boxes of paprika which he liked and could not buy abroad...
Greenwich Village Follies. A spirited, sumptuous display of color and talent with a good deal of extraordinary dancing to paprika it?two mirthful comic acrobats, the Mandells, Daphne Pollard, the laugh-provoking vaudevillian of the piece, some lavishly-staged song numbers, good voices, splendid direction, noteworthy speed. Not quite as laughable in its high spots as the Music...