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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year their troubles start when they go to a hospital with suitcases labeled M.D. (Mule Drivers), are mistaken for two medicos, end in jail. The show is garnished with such slapstick as putting a patient to sleep by letting him smell an old shoe, such gags as "Your head sets on one end of your spine and you set on the other." Silas gets broad at times, but never really dirty. What keeps it moving are its dances and specialty acts, its gold-toothed but good-looking chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mr. Green & Mr. Bean | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Interesting to note that the tune on the back of the record, "One Evening in Havana" with its name changed to "One Morning in May," became one of Hoagy's most famous hits, rating a place with "Lazy Bones" and "Shoe Shine Boy" in the Decca album of his songs...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Today we start our war, our peculiarly local, Maine-to-California war. The only thing it has in common with other wars is the propaganda element, but the shoe is on the other foot here, because this propaganda comes straight from the people, from their hearts. And you will be hearing it from cigar store to pool-room to barber shop to men's room. And Fridays you will hear it from the ladies, from now until October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATCH THAT ARM, MR. ROOSEVELT | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

Joseph Martin. The leathery little pub lisher of North Attleboro, Mass., his heart long set on the Speakership of the House, last week was still an ideal compromise candidate. Able, shrewd, plain as an old shoe, Joe Martin, 55, is obviously a clearheaded, sobergoing New Englander, as familiar as apples and Biblical proverbs, a man who would bring honest humility to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Lion Noir is the name of a popular French brand of black shoe polish. Black Lion is also the self-given nickname of the second tallest, darkest-skinned member of the French Chamber of Deputies-Negro Galandou Diouf, 64, Deputy for Senegal, one of the four colored and one of the most colorful men in the French Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lion of Senegal | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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