Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs, "In the Merry Month of Maybe," in which Ira Gershwin and Mr. Rose have taken the utmost advantage of lyricist's license...
...Crazy Quilt is the sequel to Sweet & Low, presented earlier this season by famed Fannie Brice and her husband Billy Rose (TIME, Dec. 1). It is a great deal sweeter and not so low as its predecessor. Supporting Miss Brice in the fun-making are Phil Baker and his accordion, Ted Healy and his grotesque ''stooges" (comic assistants). There are also: Fannie's nimble-footed brother Lew, the excellent ballroom dancers Gomez & Winona, a pretty little girl named Ethel Norris who sings and dances, good music by Harry Warren. For once, a Jewish production has acquired...
Senator Simeon Davison Fess, National Republican Chairman: "No uniform pattern ... a crazy-quilt...
...Quilt...
...White Hall, Ill., afraid to put her money in a bank, Mary Booth, 70, made a crazy quilt out of $2,000 worth of bills, tried to exchange it for that amount in Washington...