Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vary much from play to play but he has a large body of followers for whom Ed Wynn, like Groucho Marx, is sufficient in himself. The personality is more important than the vehicle. In the case of "The Laugh Parade," which is small beer in its interludes of song and dance, this is especially true...
...Laugh Parade" is simply a succession of vaudeville sketches featuring Mr. Wynn or elss a specially performer to whom Mr. Wynn is an expert feeder of situations, and the before mentioned song and dance numbers. At the performance which the Playgoer attended, the audience showed its excellent judgment by reserving its enthusiastic applause for the scenes in which Ed Wynn dominates. Apart from his other talents, this comedian has an excellent reputation for his ability to build up situations for his fellow-players. Many of the specialty numbers in the "Laugh Parade" draw their chief merit from the running commentary...
...Long foe, and nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
...papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled to ze breem! Rewolt!'' There is a nudist sketch; a scene in Cinemactress "Margreta Garbitch's" Hollywood training quarters; a song called "Love, Nuts and Noodles" in which Nina Mae McKinney does what appears to be a nautch dance...
Next week's concert will be Bob Craw ford's first formal appearance in Fairbanks. But many an oldtimer there remembers how, aged 7, Bob would sing the only song he knew, "In The Good Old Summer Time," while other children passed a fur hat among the miners. The Crawford family had migrated from Dawson, Canada, down the Yukon and up the Tanana River, looking for gold. They were among Fairbanks' first settlers. Bob Crawford first studied music on a mail order fiddle, with a French exile named Vic Durand. His first song, "My Northland," has been...