Word: skits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the revue for special comment. Of course, Bert Lahr and Cliff Edwards are good, the former at his best in the song "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You." Cliff Edwards scores two smashes--as Mussolini in the song "Boondoggling," and as Henry the Eighth in a skit...
...after the third scene hears droll Herb Williams (The Farmer Takes a Wife) open his mouth exactly three times. For Eddie Foy Jr., who can at least imitate a seal better than anyone else in the U. S. theatre, there is no profitable employment whatever. Most of the skit work is taken over by a British newcomer named Reginald Gardiner who imitates trains, dirigibles, steamships. Other features of an evening of fair fun: the dancing feet of Eleanor Powell, back from Hollywood where they clipped off her bangs, frizzed her hair, enameled her face and made her look like...
...principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...Asbury Park, Heavyweight Champion Max Baer, rehearsing for a radio skit while training for his June 13 fight with James J. Braddock, contrived to shoot himself in the chest with a revolver loaded with a blank cartridge. He was hospitalized for powder burns...
During the post-War inflation people used to talk a lot about the High Cost of Living. The HC of L was belabored in song and skit. Socialites protested the HCL by sporting overalls. As prices continued to mount, a nation-wide buyers' strike developed that was not broken until Wanamaker's department stores in Manhattan and Philadelphia suddenly slashed prices one morning in May, 1920-thus dating the beginning of the post-War depression...