Word: pattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scandinavian dialogue men, Olsen and Johnson, comprise the best patter team this reviewer has heard since Joe Brown and partner forsook the Follies for the films. They weep while reciting successive nifties and Mr. Johnson flings himself at the floor with frequent heart-broken abandon. One that panicked the cash customers started: "What would you be if your great-grandfather was a thief, grandfather was a thief, and father was a thief...
...between times, a Publix melange of girls and nonsense titled "Bubbles" beguiles the audience. The girls, however, slip up in their routine dances now and then, one of them actually took a heavy fall, and the song and patter men act somewhat nonplussed at being on the big time: Fannie Brice, America's leading comedienne (don't ask which direction) dashes on for 15 minutes and completes the bill in a manner inconvenient to describe...
...collection includes a little of the patter, more of the lyric wisdom, and several of her compact sonnets. The patter is less flippant...
...they have no desire to see this. Try it once more and be converted. This is even true of some professional performances, but not a trace of it here. In fact it is a little too much when both male and female choruses enunciate so clearly that even the patter is distinct. But it is Since, the lyvles are so essential a part of these plays. It is most pleasant to be able to pick them up without effort, and with this in mind the producer has apparently put great stress upon this phase...
Wilbur at 8.20--"Paris". Irene Bordoni singing cute songs amid the patter of a thousand wisecracks...