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...side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...
...songwriter named Blanche Merrill did a vaudeville sketch for Fanny called "Poor Little Moving-Picture Baby," a burlesque on one of the child stars of the period. Fanny kept this character in mind for 15 years. About 1930 she suggested it to Moss Hart, who wrote a skit for Sweet & Low about an infant known simply as "Babykins." This was, in effect, the first Snooks script. Billy Rose may well have helped Hart, says Fanny...
...with foreign stars, for now with the war over they have a chance to leave the confusion of Europe and gain the quiet security of the high wire and trapeze. Another influence of the modern scene is a display involving a Junior Jeep, not to mention the tragicomic clown skit with a bright black Atom Smasher. One clown climbs in the machine and...the rest can be imagined...
Menotti, whose music is also his living, learned a lesson. Last week in Manhattan he staged the world premiere of his third and latest chamber opera, The Telephone-a trivial, tuneful skit-to-music. He paired it with his last year's hit, The Medium, and together they have already brought him offers of a touring road company and a Broadway showing...
...title came out of an old burlesque theater drunk skit. Jack McVea, leader of a small West Coast Negro jazz band, had heard the skit years ago-and the phrase stuck. Last summer on a rainy day in Portland, Ore. he wrote a simple riff tune for it and later recorded it-leaving out the references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason...