Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern & Beacon--"Paris Bound" and "On With The Show...
Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...
Carry smashed a cigar-stand in Coney Island, acted in Elizabeth, N. J., in Hatchetation (originally Ten Nights in a Bar-room), lectured in a burlesque show in Springfield, Mass. Hearing President McKinley was shot, she lost favor by saying "I have no sympathy for this friend of the brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...
...Bates never fought its way into enemy territory and lacked the man-power to test the Harvard line to any degree. The three first downs which the opponents were able to pound out, however, were largely the result of sloppy tackling. On the offensive the Crimson line did not show a consistent life. Players frequently cross-charged ineffectively, allowing opposing forwards to sift through and it was only the shifty running of the backs which prevented a resultant loss of ground...
...Backs Show Promise...