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Summing up her impact on London (1923-31), Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine' and 'darling' and bacchanalian parties...
Smokers in general are hectic. At the last one before the war Sally Rand created a near-riot with her lecture entitled, "What the Typical Stage-Door Johnny is Looking for when he Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door...
Police had to be called at the last pre-war smoker to open a path for the eminent Sally Rand after her timely lecture entitled, "What the Typical Stage-Door Johnny is Looking for when he Stage-Door Johnnies a Burlesque Theatre Stage Door...
...Mother Wore Tights is a rather tepid but likable show. It is at its best during the vaudeville numbers, and there are some pleasant songs (best: Kokomo, Indiana). Brash Dan Dailey (Father) has a personality as sharp and convincing as a breath of stage-door air: he can really sing, really dance and really act. Miss Grable can sing too; her pleasure in playing a generous and happy woman is contagious enough to make up for her shortcomings as an actress. What she can really do, of course, is dance. And she still holds undisputed title to the most gorgeous...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...