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Aside from being too long and too silly, Yokel Boy is very fair entertainment. Comes Love should join the season's song hits. The chorus looks good and dances better. Judy Canova is an admirably droll musicomedy Sis Hopkins who flops only when she confuses herself with Bea Lillie. Yokel Boy Buddy Ebsen can use his feet. Tiny, titillating Dixie Dunbar can use her body. And Phil Silvers clowns convincingly as a loud, long-fingered Hollywood agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Manhattan | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...beautiful chorines, "Sis" from Texas and "Pack" from Pittsburgh, dropped into the quiet sanctity of Cambridge yesterday and marvelled at its undisturbed peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...Doesn't anything ever happen around here?" queried "Sis," a baby-blue-eyed blonde with a delightful Southern accent. When informed of the riots, Plan E controversy, and Hicks scandal, she squealed, "Oh, let's go to a riot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...Pack," a little more reticent than "Sis", although at 17 she has already been a Rockette in New York's famed Radio City and had a part in "Hooray for What," claimed that a college education was not as comprehensive as a stage education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

Arriving in Manhattan in 1906, said Claimant Morris, he accidentally encountered "Papa" who took him to the family mansion on Fifth Avenue. He heard Sis ter Ella tell "Papa": "Get out and take your brat with you." Said the "brat" (age 26): "To hell with you; you're all a pack of nuts," and went away. Only once again did he see "Papa" in years of wandering about the U. S., hopping freights, working as an itinerant laborer. He gave "Papa" scarcely another thought until about a week after Sister Ella's death, which he chanced to read about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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