Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drop Inn. This is a dancing show-whenever the plot lags or the music becomes too plaintively reminiscent of every other musical comedy of the year, the cast livens things up by bursting into a spasm of dancing :-and someone is dancing nearly all the time. Which is as it should be, for all the dancing is good, and James Barton's eccentric shuffling and fandangoing are incomparable. There seems to be practically nothing this stringy personage cannot do with his feet and legs-they are flexible as spaghetti-you feel that he could tie them behind his ears...
...proposed idea is not wholly lacking in precedent. Last fall the Southern Pacific Railroad, in a spasm of benevolence, offered freight-car transportation to university students from California to Oregon and return at five dollars per man. In the past summer, the United American lines inaugurated a transatlantic service for ships for third-class passengers only. That the experiment has been a success is demonstrated by its continuance...
...called when the ingrowing bond is between mother and daughter? The Medea complex? Well, no matter--for, after all, the common, unread run of us can relish the new piece at the Little Theatre and, as its somewhat uncomfortable story develops, will wriggle and chuckle with many a spasm of recognition...