Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Priorities" is a synthesis of musical comedy, circus, and burlesque. It begins with a three ring splurge of roller skating and ends up with Willie Howard's artistic interpretation of burlesque's favorite chestnut, the butcher boy skit. Lou Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm...
...Diana to don a middy blouse and pretend she is twelve in order to keep from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...
...over England this week American doughboys looked in the wrong direction for traffic. Tall Americans stooped in the low-ceilinged Rose and Crowns, Red Lions, Crown and Anchors, Bull and Bushes. Firm-handed, fast-driving khaki-clad chauffeurs in khaki-painted jeeps, trucks, station wagons and staff cars, roller-coasted around the sharply winding British roads...
...Elis have popped up gleefully with another "Yale Plan"--this time it's a steam roller advisory system which pushes undergraduates into deferred status quotas as quickly as the local advisers can shuffle their cards in the filing case...
...change is the addition of steam roller tactics to what was an advisory system. Planning to fill all deferred-status quotas at the earliest possible moment, Yale's advisers may assume the guise of recruiting officers. This will work little hardship on the men now in college who know the difference between V-1 and Army enlisted reserve and who have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within a few weeks...