Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broken frequently by the antics of one funny trio who must have written their own routine, the pleasing calisthenics of a large chorus of girls whose beauty was given by God and not Helena Rubenstein, expensive costumes and lighting, and a good measure of sweet notes from the orchestra pit. It's all there but the script; one-quarter of it plus a good script would have made a better product. But, though O'Brien dies a thousand deaths, the show will probably live on, sustained by sheer scope and variety...
...years earlier he had made the best deal of his career. Playing a burlesque house in Kansas City, he was hired to fill in at a nearby vaudeville house for an act which failed to show up. His routine consisted principally of falling into the orchestra pit and coming up with a bass drum wrapped around his neck. A pretty usherette thought the act was so bad that she complained to the manager. Skelton was fired. Few months later he married the usherette...
From Arnstein, Chiang learned the pit falls of the Road: deplorable truck maintenance (sometimes 60% of all units are out of commission); inadequate roadside repair shops, and no gas depots; incompetent loading; unskilled, undisciplined grafting drivers (1,300 trucks have been wrecked since the Road was opened two and a half years ago); too many time-eating customs inspections en route; no authoritative, centralized control...
Sponsored by the State Board of Health, the privies are built with WPA labor. In most cases, the owner provides land and materials-pine lumber, concrete for floor and pit, corrugated iron for the roof. Total cost: $34, divided equally between material and labor...
...playing golf I have often noticed that the best players seem to have the best luck. Their balls miss sand traps by inches, roll up on the green and stop near the hole; where others (mine) are apt to trickle into the pit or land short of the green by a few inches...