Word: riotousness
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...show opened in New York more than two years ago. You may be familiar with Irving Berlin's slick music, but it still rings bells. And the indomitable team of William Gaxton and Victor Moore, assisted by Vera Zorina and Irene Bordoni, troupe with spontaneous humour through the riotous plot. Maybe they did make a movie of it with Bob Hope (and if your think he's a good, watch Gaxton slip on a girdle), but "Louisiana Purchase" is basically and essentially one of the top examples of that classic form, the American Musical Comedy...
This week two of the most durable representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps cropped up again. They are the raucous, riotous, wenching duo, Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg, who first appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...
...absent-minded clarinetist. When the orchestra played Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in which the clarinet roops a rooster call, he missed his cue. After the closing chord, the Pullman conductor realized his omission, leaped to his feet, played the rooster call, sat down amid riotous applause...
...year in Eugene, Ore., whose citizens turned down Bonneville power. This left 125 miles of Bonneville transmission lines, built in hopes of a big new customer, with almost no place to go. Four months later Portland turned down Bonneville too. So, this month, did Tacoma and Spokane. In these riotous elections the PUDs and the private utilities sometimes made cause against BPA. Dr. Raver's own campaigning was often vitriolically abetted by that of Harold Ickes, who helped lose several elections by introducing the Federal interference issue into an already three-cornered fight...
...Stafford romance through the softer strains. As for the indispensable sex-angle, Audrey Christie leads al the other fifty-odd girls in the cast in laying it on with a capital S. Her dormitory-room strip-tease coached by Maxie and Sid gives the Old Howard touch with a riotous overlay of belly-shaking comedy that is burlesque at its best. It certainly makes Harvard seem a deathly dull place...