Word: rubes
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...circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran, brother of the playwright and the man who telephoned "Mrs. Margolies" in The Front Page). High point of the drama comes with the second act curtain, when the circus rallying cry of "Hey, rube!" goes up as the train is attacked by a mob of town-folk...
...York Racquet & Tennis Club last week the United States Polo Association held its annual meeting, attended to routine business and, specifically, to the delicate question of handicaps. They raised the two able Texans who played in the East last summer- Cecil Smith from seven goals to eight, Rube Williams from six to seven. Beside Williams, three other players were raised to seven: Robert Strawbridge Jr., Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford of the open-champion Hurricanes, and Stewart Iglehart of the young Old Aikens. In the great first flight of polo-the internationalists-they left Thomas Hitchcock Jr. at the highest possible rating...
...pronounced delicacy toward the subject which has made him most of his money. Only once, when he wanders out on the stage with a pine board, does he capitalize the utility which has made him famous. For the rest of the performance he comports himself like a good rube character actor. He takes the part of the grandfather of a family which has grown rich in Oklahoma oil and which has decided to go to Paris to see the sights. The attraction is adapted from Homer Croy's novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent...
Other July 4 birthday celebrators: Actor George Michael Cohan, 52; Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg...
...mystery travesties in which the clichés of standard thriller-drama are aped and inexpertly lampooned. Playwright Frank Martins had unfortunately assumed that melodrama, if badly done, automatically becomes satire. Acted by an incompetent cast, Find The Fox provides three murders, a hissing Japanese, an unscrupulous seducer, a rube detective, sundry other familiar types. Dénouement: the scene is really an informal insane asylum for actors who have grown wool-witted from performing in thriller shows...