Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of theatrical information: Cornelia Otis Skinner did research for her book "Family Circle" there; queries along the lines of "should Macbeth be played in kilts" are always coming in. A movie company once called up from Hollywood to find out whether Jenny Lind had ever sung in some saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. (She hadn...
Time was when Eddie Condon's saloon on Third Street rattled nightly with inspired polyphony from George Brunis' trombone and Bill Davison's trumpet. Condon's rickety palace is no longer subject to such damage, with Bruins in Chicago; but the proprietor, operating as always with an eye for the main chance, has recouped his loss by promoting a remarkable young pianist...
...Whiffenpoofs of 1950 are great. For about 15 minutes last Friday night they proved this at the annual Harvard-Yale Glee Club Concert in New Haven. Zipping through such songs as "Toot Toot Tootsic," "Saloon," "Baby Sister Blues," and "Crusin' Around," they brought life to an otherwise ordinary concert with their relaxed, informal, and technically fine style...
Liquor sales were slow--slower than they've been for a Dartmouth weekend in a long time--local saloon keepers reported. One restful police sergeant commented, "Times certainly have changed...
Thus began the career of W. C. Fields. He slept, successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...