Word: pattering
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...hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best...
...Significance. Such, expressed with infinite restraint, is the terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart patter about their vulgar cousins, the English-"they tell the most extraordinary things-about their, husbands, their money affairs, their insides. They don't seem discouraged by not being asked. And they all seem so intimate with each other ... of course they seem very definite and practical...
...addition to all this there is a dog act, one Jack Osterman whose patter is pretty dreadful, and Miss Sylvia Clark who may possibly have feelings so we just won't say anything. The good act is an acrobatic one in which one Pete Michon succeeds in throwing himself about the stage in a manner never to be equalled again, unless he comes around for a return engagement...
...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...