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Like Mrs. Nation herself, her first biographers tended to take their subject overseriously, as a moral force whose famous hatchet splintered a national institution that was richly deserving of demolition: the saloon. This new book makes no such mistake. Robert Lewis Taylor is a skilled biographer (W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes) as well as an incorrigible parodist (The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters) who treats her with the irreverence that...
...personal code. "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages," Kresge once said, "I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these years." On those grounds, when Prohibition arrived he gave $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, and personally organized a National Vigilance Committee to help enforce the 18th Amendment...
...fail to find God a proper subject for burlesque, nor do I perceive sportive fun in Boyd's theological meaning. Any candidates he finds for his saloon conversions will forget the pith of his message when they sober up in the morning, but Boyd will still be hung over in his spiritual vacuum...
...Dean Robert Brustein turned the University Theater over to Viet Rock, a "presentation," by 34-year-old Seattle-born Playwright Megan Terry. Improvisation-which is to say absence of craft-is the technique of the evening, as seven G.I. recruits are followed from birth to induction center to a saloon in Saigon where they find that war is hell and that the military tend to turn civilians into soldiers. "Viet Nam may be the second in a series of contained wars in which our best young men go and get ground into the dirt," explains Playwright Terry. "I am trying...
...their early 40s, begin by psychoanalyzing a performer "to find what she stands for," then work as long as six months polishing her delivery. With Jane Morgan, they played up her sex appeal and styled her vocal treatments after Lillian Russell; with Teresa Brewer, they provided "lots of saloon songs arranged as if they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between...