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Their show was a fast, 58-minute routine: Miss Francis told stories; Miss Landis sang (one of her numbers: Strip Polka) ; Miss Raye clowned and Miss Mayfair danced, winding up her act by cutting a rug with a soldier and then carrying him offstage like a sack of meal. When they learned that their audiences hungered for the scent of perfume, the girls conserved their small supply by wearing it only at performances...
...city-bred Benny and staring at well-built Ann Sheridan; his antique-loving wife, if you can stand several lengthy reels of people falling through roofs and down wells, go over and get a jump on those blue books blues. But if you regard slapstick as pure corn, and rug-eating dogs and thunderstorms in rickety houses as just too far-fetched, don't bother yourself with this feature...
...traffic light, brandishing a club. He shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
...without restraint. But the score, as the curtain fell: no knockouts. The judge's decision (by Critic Claudia Cassidy): "Miss Glade was supple, audacious, and sure of herself, singing in the wild mezzo that can range from voluminously lovely to something as fuzzy as an old rug...
From the Restoration to the middle of the nineteenth century, technical advances and an increasing mass audience led slowly toward realistic presentation. Then the gifted Irishman Dion Bouccicault came to this country and put the first real door in a flat, and the first real rug on the floor, to the amazement of both company and audience, and started preaching the jehad of Realism. His ideal was to show everything on the stage, to leave nothing to the imagination. His disciple was David Belasco, who gave tremendous impetus to the movement and at one time put a complete Child...