Word: showboating
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...Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show in Showboat. He told...
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...streets [Chicago] and watch the folks go by"; "to live on a houseboat in the Vale of Cashmere." Author of many a short story, co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two Broadway-produced plays, she has also written : Dawn O'Hara, Fanny Herself, The Girls, So Big, Showboat, Cimarron (TIME, March...
...Constance, Ky. the calliope of the showboat Bryant of Marietta soughed squealingly "Beautiful Ohio" and then the Betsy Ann's tune, "Dixie." The Tom Greene had an edge, but the boats were still so close together that the resting shifts of black stokers jibed at each other across the dividing strip of foamy yellow-brown water. Coming into Cincinnati, special policemen sweated to keep order in the dense auto lines of spectators along the river side streets. Here the Tom Greene began to pull away, was a half-mile ahead just past the city and finished...
...involves short vaudeville acts by such stars as Ann Pennington, Tom Patricola, Warner Baxter, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Olsen, J. Harold Murray. They put on a benefit performance-no worse than most of the cinema minstrel shows released recently-this time arranged for the destitute skipper of a showboat. Best shots: a riverboat swinging into a Mississippi wharf; a train racing along the Hudson River...