Word: skit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition of the cinch, which allows her to belt in any combination of skirt and top, often with telling effect. Sweaters--which fit, this year--are often particularly startling, and the girl, her waist defined by the unyielding cinch, can now wear them with a full tweed or flannel skit without looking like a teddy bear. Hips and terse length permitting, she can also belt together a sweater and straight skirt, but this requires discretion and a rear-view mirror...
...current Lillie evening has many fine, authentic Lillie moments. But much of the material-skit or song, new or old, even as famous as Three Little Fishies-is either not very good in itself or not what Bea can do best. In the past, she has been most glorious upsetting full-stage apple carts, playing hob with vast production numbers; the atmosphere here dwindles, in more ways than one, to that of a nightclub. Bea's gifts at times seem almost as wasted as they are wonderful...
...supplement the program. Heading the list is Boston TV star Freddie Hall, M.C. of the nightly "Show Bar." Others include the Dunster Dunces, the Wellesley Widows, a freshman jazz band called the "Night Hawks," and a group of eight Boston models who will take part in a special skit...
...Maxim's ritzy restaurant and attempts to give the weary audience (the show lasts until 11:30) a picture of Parisian night-life. The plot stands still while Monsieur Lebon, in his own inimitable fashion, emasculates four songs. Then there are a couple of dance sequences, a comedy skit, and at long last the thing is over. If Lehar were alive and saw this act, he would wish he were dead...
...film trots out Warner's full stable of stars-Doris Day, Ruth Roman, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Jane Wyman, Frank Lovejoy et al. But the show's best number is a hilarious skit, "How to Bake a Pousse-Café Cake," performed by the nightclub team of Noonan & Marshall...