Word: polysyllabicism
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Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy...
Y officials said the trouble all started with a sassy kitchen hand named Severe Moreno. Y employes blamed Stewardess Dolores Uranga and Secretary Alberto Salinas Carranza, technical adviser to Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores...
Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler, a Catholic who seldom goes to Mass, borrowed boldly from the Holy See ideas for a new German Constitution which, he intimated, will insure the succession in Nazi leadership by means similar to those insuring that there shall always be a Pope. Rolling out the polysyllabic titles...
Manhattan's St. James Theatre one night last week. The Mikado was being revived and delighted Savoyards, a distinct and folksy type of audience which seems to remain in hiding between Gilbert & Sullivan revivals, were on hand in large and enthusiastic numbers.* Librettos were on sale in the lobby...
If John Ringling's tall-talking publicist, Dexter Fellows, knows this, it disturbs him little. Outfitted in loud, self-advertising mufti, he strides through the dressing-rooms of his troupers, confident that, one & all, they are the finest performers ever assembled, worthy of every conceivable hyperbole. He is, of...