Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the shelf and dusting them off is developing into what seems to be a positive, and certainly must be a paying mania of the Messrs. Shubert, Last year it was "Rose Marie" and "Blossom Time"; this year it has already been "The Student Prince," and now it is "Rio Rita"-the latest to be ground out of the Shubert revival mill. Like warmed-over carrot pudding they are never so good as at the original scrving, but the old always come back for a nostalgic second and the young to see what their elders used to rave about. "Rio...
...easy to see what made "Rio Rita" one of the Great Ziegfeld's greatest in the syncopated 'twenties. The production is full of chorus numbers, bright seenery and such well-known songs as "The March of the Rangers." "Ay Ay Ay" and, of course, "Rio Rita." Of these, only the music still contains any real appeal, and coupled with the present popularity of the Latin American subject, gives the revival a "raison d'etre." At tempts to bring the lines up to date enjoy only the mildest of success...
...Rope Emerson is still the biggest woman we have ever seen on the stage, and quite humorous when she throws her weight around or beats a poor little piano to death. Add one very funny swivel hipped, unjointed dancer named Mclissa Mason, and you have all the reasons why "Rio Rita" is as pleasant now as it was terrific then-a fair ratio for any revival...
...Rio de Janeiro there were rumors of a great naval battle off the coast of Brazil. It was said that there were those who knew more of this battle in the city of Maceió, 1,000 miles north of Rio. Yes, the citizens had heard that at least four warships had been involved...
Last week the great battle of Maragogy had shrunk, in Rio rumor, to ridiculous scale. It was decided that probably the terrible flashes and thunderous gun-talk had been only searchlights and rockets from the S.S. Delnorte picking up survivors from the torpedoed S.S. I.C. White (TIME...