Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strike Me Pink (words, music & production by Lew Brown & Ray Henderson) had its premiere in the null manner. Opening night tickets were printed in pink & gilt. There were pink roses for the ladies, pink carnations for the gentlemen. Even in such an atmosphere of anti-Depression bravado, one might have expected a bank moratorium audience to be unresponsive. Such was not the case. With Wartime cheeriness, first-nighters rewarded an optimistic but routine number called "It's Great to Be Alive," sung by dark little Gracie Barrie, with a storm of applause. When the tall and attractive chorus chanted...
Theme-song of Strike Me Pink is as exhilarating a fox-trot as the team of Brown & Henderson has turned out for some years...
Strike me pink if I don't think...
American Dream gets in its most heavy-handed propagandist licks when the contemporary Daniel, a parlor pink with just enough genuine instincts left in him to know that his life is abominably warped, returns to the seat of his ancestors. Daniel (blond Douglass Montgomery who was also Daniel in Act I) futilely protests against his own social sphere by wearing turtleneck sweaters and dirty tennis shoes. He has also written a book on the New Economics...
...this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does not quite break. One recovers his courage in time to run off with the trader's ill-used wife. Another, who had liked her too, sticks with Prin until rebellious natives pink him with little poisoned darts. Then Prin sits down on his rotting houseboat, gun on fat lap, to wait until they come...