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Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...
...thoroughly indignant young lady emerged into the open, blushing as red as the color of her dress, and, referring to the skirt episode on top of the aggressive salesmen, mumbled something about "adding insult to injury in her first day as a Harvard girl...
Lost. In Jamestown, N.Y., a young woman wrote to ask a bus company to return her wrap-around skirt which had come off without her noticing it while she was riding home...
Merely pleasant too are most of the cast-pretty, thin-voiced Cinemactress Constance Moore, big-limbed Benay Venuta, gallery-god Ronald Graham. It's Ray Bolger's show. As husky Hippolyta's simpering, ladylike husband he is deft enough to draw many a laugh, skirt many a snicker. As a dancer he is superb-inexhaustibly inventive, unfailingly comic. But being the star of the show he has to carry too much on his shoulders to do all that he might with his feet...
Then, to back up the designers, leading U.S. women were asked to make reassuring statements. Said Adela Rogers St. Johns: "The overdressed woman will be as unpatriotically conspicuous as though she wore a Japanese kimono." Cracked Irvin S. Cobb's daughter Elisabeth: "I'll cheerfully lose my skirt to keep our liberty...