Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mama Every Night, Without a Song. After he became Comedienne Fanny Brice's third husband in 1929, he was spurred on to greater feats to keep his personality independent of his wife's fame. He produced a razzle-dazzle revue called Crazy Quilt, toured the country with it and, under the pressure of terrific ballyhoo, made himself a quarter of a million dollars. Then, says Billy Rose, "One day I discovered that there was a show called the circus which had a daily overhead of $18,000 and still managed to make a profit of about...
...other picture, is a piece of sentimental trash. Supposedly concerning the life of Stephen Foster, this picture should receive applause only from the most susceptible tearjerker addicts. Studded with an incompetent cast headed by Douglass Montgomery and Evelyn Venable, directed with incredible stupidity, and put together like a patchwork quilt, the movie was almost enough to make this Spartan reviewer join the chorus of groans coming from some neighbors in the aisle. Even Foster's magnificent folk-songs--and this is the crowning infamy--were rendered wretchedly. After seeing "Harmony Lane," even "Shipmates Forever" seemed to approach the requirements...
...potato chips, spiced apples, pickles, jellies, jams, conserves, canned fruit, sun preserved fruits; for the best pillow case, cross-stitched spread, French knot spread, Cluny centerpiece, six-piece doily set, crocheted infants' socks, cutwork, Roman embroidery, boy's suit made from cast-off garments, rompers, Afghan, artificial flowers, pieced quilt, hand-painted cake plates (professional and amateur), fruit group, picnic table. Money winnings were small (first prize: $2), but eminently satisfying to the victor was the distinction of being known as a right smart housewife back home...
...gentleman farmer, lost money in Florida real estate. Her first engagement was a 20-week vaudeville tour at $100 a week, when she was 15. Since then she has appeared in Follow Through, Fine & Dandy, two of George White's Scandals, toured in Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt. At Manhattan's Casino de Paree, where the average engagement is two weeks, she stayed...
...attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments fit into each other to form a crazy-quilt pattern in black and white...