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...girls in conscientious exercises. It' splashes the stage with prismatic voluptuousness. It jollies the audience. Charles ("Chic") Sale appears in Yankee caricatures, a pleasant departure from the stale Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Negro takeoffs. His comedy is the show's high spot. There is a funny skit wherein a neglected wife rebels against the oft-repeated "Good night, Mother of Three" adieus of a husband who goes out every evening. She retaliates with, "Good night, Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...about Tia Juana with murderous Mexican villains in sinister pursuit. An off-and-on love affair, and a charming dancer, Marie Saxon, are tossed in for good measure. Presented as a musical comedy, The Ramblers is really an excuse for bringing back Comedians Clark and McCullough in a prolonged skit. It is a good excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Then a scout contest was held for "stunts." First prize was given to a skit, Mr. Everyman Gets a Wife in 1936 (Everyman picked a Girl Scout because she could cook). Second prize went to a troop that built a log cabin, a foot bridge and a campfire in three minutes. A troop of young Negresses was honored for portraying a Girl Scout giving her seat to an old man in a street car, another troop for showing Girl Scouts rescuing flappers lost in the woods, a third troop for depicting "the wreck of the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Girl Scouts | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...vigorous position than the American he had probably seen "The Young Person in Pink", For Gertrude Jennings' play, now in its first week at the Copley, is certainly insipid, if not devitalizingly vapid. Three acts of gentle farce, it rests its right to existence on a pink dress, a skit in the best Hyde Park cockney, and--at least in America--on Alan Mowbray's smile. To say, "The smile's the play," is not to vaporize. It is the truth. And all the more surprising is this smile when one realizes the position that gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMNESIA AND BROMIDES WITH PERSON IN PINK | 4/7/1926 | See Source »

...Ivan Anderson, Secretary of the Institute, declared: "We assume that 'cutting of bad line' means that Mlle. Parisys' skit was removed entire, since all of the lines were about equally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Parisys Silenced? | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

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